Patent ID: 9672272
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method executed by one or more computing devices for efficiently performing operations on distinct data values, the method comprising: receiving, by at least one of the one or more computing devices, a query directed to a column of data in a table, the column of data corresponding to a domain of a database, and the query defining one or more group sets for grouping the data retrieved in response to the query, wherein each group set in the one or more group sets corresponds to a unique group of one or more values associated with one or more other domains of the database; and generating, by at least one of the one or more computing devices, an entity map vector for each group set in the one or more group sets by identifying any values in the column of data which are present in any rows of the table which include the unique group of one or more values corresponding to the group set, wherein: