ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,054, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Set containment operation with range constructs" was invented by David Cronin (Dublin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processing a set containment operation that includes a combination of singleton values and value ranges includes first searching the subset of singleton values. The first search is performed in O(log(n)) time, where n is the number of singleton values. If the first search does not find the target value in the singleton subset, then a second search is performed on each value range. The second search is performed in O(n) time where n is ...