Patent Document ID: 7783660
Application ID: 11539040

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by at least one computing device, a search query containing a token, the token having a token number of characters in a token sequence; generating, by the at least one computing device, a first split-token from the token and a second split-token from the token, the first split-token having a first number of characters of the token in a first sequence and the second split token having a second number of characters of the token in a second sequence, wherein the first number and second number are determined based on the token number of characters; searching, by the at least one computing device, an index for first entries using the first split-token; and searching, by the at least one computing device, the index for second entries using the second-split token; and combining, by the at least one computing device, the first and second entries as search results for the received search query.

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Claim 4:
4. The method of claim 1 , the searching the index for first entries using the first split-token further comprising: searching, by the at least one computing device, the index for the first entries, the first entries being entries having an entry number of characters equal to or greater than the first number and having initial characters that exactly match the first sequence of the first split-token.