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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2017
Applicant:
Tamr, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Inventors:
George Beskales, Waltham, MA (US);
Ihab F. Ilyas, Waterloo, CA;
Assignee:
Tamr, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/02 (2006.01); G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 16/903 (2019.01); G06F 16/174 (2019.01); G06F 16/906 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0641 (2013.01); G06F 16/90344 (2019.01); G06F 16/1748 (2019.01); G06F 16/906 (2019.01);
Abstract
A very efficient computer system is presented to generate all pairs of records that have a certain similarity. Similarity is defined in terms of the textual similarity of the record attributes and/or absolute difference for numeric record attributes. Software assigns each record to a number of bins, and then compares pairs of records that belong to the same bin. This is more efficient than comparing all pairs of records since the number of records compared to each other is much smaller.