Patent ID: 9727665
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method for determining a relationship of records distributed among nodes in a network, comprising: receiving an update to one of a plurality of records stored at a local node comprising an updated record; processing data in the updated record to determine at least one containing bucket having attributes matching those of the updated record, wherein the determined at least one containing bucket comprises at least one of a plurality of buckets, and wherein the buckets are assigned to the local node and the external nodes; forwarding at least a portion of data in the updated record to each external node including one of the determined at least one containing bucket to perform comparison matching with other records in the determined at least one containing bucket at the external node; determining whether a previous version of the updated record was in a removed bucket that is not one of the determined at least one containing bucket; and indicating that the updated record is not in the removed bucket when the removed bucket is assigned to the local node.