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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 12411856 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2025

Filed:

Aug. 05, 2022

Method and apparatus for identifying similar data elements using string matching

Applicant:

Elm, Riyadh, SA;

Inventors:

Muhammad Saleh Al-Qurishi, Riyadh, SA;

Mohamed Ibrahim Basha, Riyadh, SA;

Riad Souissi, Riyadh, SA;

Assignee:

Elm, Riyadh, SA;

Attorney:

Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

Primary Examiner:

Chelcie L Daye

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/22 (2019.01); G06F 16/2452 (2019.01); G06F 16/2457 (2019.01); G06F 40/263 (2020.01); G06F 40/284 (2020.01); G06F 40/58 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/24578 (2019.01); G06F 16/2255 (2019.01); G06F 16/2452 (2019.01); G06F 40/263 (2020.01); G06F 40/284 (2020.01); G06F 40/58 (2020.01);
Abstract

Disclosed is a method and apparatus for identifying similar record elements to a query, the method including receiving a query, determining an index for the query, generating candidate records from a reference list to match the query based on the index and applying any one or any combination of a q-gram filter, a length filter, and a shared character count (SCC) filter, determining similarity scores of each of the candidate records identifying records from among the candidate records having a similarity score greater than or equal to a threshold, selecting data records similar to the query based on sorting the selected records according to respective similarity scores, and outputting one or more of the selected data records.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Al-Qurishi, Muhammad. (2025). Method and apparatus for identifying similar data elements using string matching (U.S. Patent No. 12411856). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/12411856

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