Patent ID: 8352488
Filing Date: 2013-01-08
Classification: G06F,G06N

Abstract:
1. An associative memory system, comprising: a distributed associative memory base comprising a network of networks of associative memory networks, a respective associative memory network comprising associations among a respective observer memories and a plurality of observed memories that are observed by the respective observer memory, ones of the associative memory networks are physically and/or logically independent from other ones of the associative memory networks; and a processing system that is configured to observe associations into, and imagine associations from, the distributed associative memory base using a plurality of streaming queues that correspond to respective ones of a plurality of rows in the associative memory networks, wherein the processing system further comprises a plurality of count server nodes that are configured to receive requests from the plurality of streaming queues and to provide count data that corresponds to associations in the distributed associative memory base responsive to the received requests.