Patent ID: 11928092
Assignee: EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method, comprising:
moving a window from a first position in a data buffer to a second position in the data buffer, and the data buffer includes one or more words;
calculating a hash value of data in the window when the window is in the second position;
checking a byte that has entered the window, as a result of a movement of the window from the first position to the second position, to determine whether the byte is whitespace; and
when the hash value is a greatest hash value seen up to a current position of the window, and when the byte is determined to be whitespace, setting a candidate offset to a whitespace offset, and the candidate offset denotes a possible segment boundary that does not fall within any word in the data buffer.