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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2019
Walmart Apollo, Llc, Bentonville, AR (US);
Mridul Jain, Cupertino, CA (US);
Saigopal Thota, Fremont, CA (US);
Xun Luan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Gajendra Alias Nishad Kamat, Cupertino, CA (US);
Walmart Apollo, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US);
Abstract
This application relates to apparatus and methods for automatically associating customer data to a corresponding customer. A computing device may receive linking data identifying a plurality of links, where each like associates at least two nodes that each represent customer data. The computing device may partition the linking data into multiple partitions, and cause a union find algorithm to be executed for each partition in parallel to associate each node with a parent ID. The computing device may iteratively execute a global shuffle algorithm to place all same nodes in a same partition, and may assign a same parent ID to the same nodes. The computing device may iteratively execute a path compression algorithm across all partitions to generate a graph output that associates all child nodes of a same parent node with the same parent ID.