A computer-based method and system for generating and compressing a plurality of universally unique identifiers (UUIDs). The bits of the UUIDs are ordered from left to right. The system maintains a counter with bits ordered from a high-order bit to a low-order bit. To generate a UUID, the system increments...http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US5913217?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5913217 - Generating and compressing universally unique identifiers (UUIDs) using counter having high-order bit to low-order bit
Generating and compressing universally unique identifiers (UUIDs) using ...
