Patent ID: 8909615

Claim:
A computerized search system, comprising: a search engine communicatively connected to a client device over a physical connection; a processor; and a storage unit coupled to the processor and storing a search index and instructions, wherein the instructions when translated by the processor cause the search engine to perform: when a capacity utilization of a partition in the search index is under a first threshold: allowing any object to be added to the partition; and allowing any existing object in the partition to be updated or deleted; when the capacity utilization of the partition is above the first threshold: disallowing any object to be added to the partition; and allowing any existing object in the partition to be updated or deleted; and when the capacity utilization of the partition is above a second threshold: disallowing any object to be added to the partition; allowing any existing object in the partition to be deleted; and moving any existing object in the partition that is subject to an update to another partition in the search index along with an indexing request.