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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 03, 2021
Ancestry.com Operations Inc., Lehi, UT (US);
Atanu Roy, Lehi, UT (US);
Jianlong Qi, Lehi, UT (US);
Peng Jiang, Lehi, UT (US);
Aaron Ling, Lehi, UT (US);
Rey Furner, Lehi, UT (US);
Lei Wu, Lehi, UT (US);
Eugene Greenwood, Lehi, UT (US);
Ian Stiles, Lehi, UT (US);
Ancestry.com Operations Inc., Lehi, UT (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for determining whether two tree persons in a genealogical database correspond to the same real-life individual. Embodiments include identifying two tree persons in a genealogical database and extracting a plurality of features from both tree persons to generate two vectors. Embodiments also include calculating a plurality of metrics between the two vectors to generate a metric function. Embodiments further include generating feature weights using a recursive process based on training data input by external users, and generating a score by calculating a weighted sum of the metric function being weighted by the feature weights. The generated score may then be compared to a threshold value.