A method and system for enumerating a trie of states of nodes. A node near the middle of a state of alphabetically ordered nodes is selected as a skip node and moved to the logical beginning of the state. The skip node is provided with a pointer to a jump node that is at the skip node's former position,...http://www.google.de/patents/US6304878?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6304878 - Method and system for improved enumeration of tries