Patent Document ID: 20100211534
Application ID: 12658531
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method comprising: accessing an inverted index comprising a plurality of inverted index lists, each inverted index list corresponding to a term, each inverted index list comprising a term identifier of the term and one or more document identifiers indicating one or more documents of a document set in which the term appears; organizing a plurality of ordered pairs, each ordered pair comprising a term identifier and a document identifier of an inverted index list, the organizing primarily based on the document identifiers of the ordered pairs; and generating a term identifier index according to the inverted index, the term identifier index comprising a plurality of sections, each section corresponding to a document, each section comprising one or more term identifiers of one or more terms that appear in the document, the generating the term identifier index according to the inverted index comprising organizing the term identifiers of the ordered pairs in the sections of the term identifier index.