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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 08, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Richard Theodore Gillam, Chantilly, VA (US);
Frankie Elizabeth Patman Maguire, Washington, DC (US);
Leonard Arthur Shaefer, Jr., Leesburg, VA (US);
Frank Everett Whaley, Roanoke, VA (US);
Charles Kinston Williams, Fairfax, VA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for name searching in mixed-entity lists is provided which comprises dividing a mixed list of entities into a plurality of entity-specific lists. A name to be searched is then categorized into a category and a specialized search logic is applied to the name to be searched. The specialized search logic is selected to be adapted to the category and uses a one of the entity-specific lists that corresponds to the category of the name to be searched. A shared search logic may also be employed, which is used for all names to be searched.