A system and methods for allocating and traversing tree structured data in contiguous portions of memory by encapsulating lower level subtrees within the memory allocated for their higher level parent trees. These encapsulated memory allocations are encoded with length descriptors at both...http://www.google.de/patents/US5829004?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5829004 - Device for storage and retrieval of compact contiguous tree index records
