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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.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 05, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Agilent Technologies, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ; G06F 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ; G06F 7/00 ;
Abstract
A method and system for applying arbitrary similarity metrics to data entities in order to partition the entities into subsets of related entities. The method and system iteratively construct successive subsets, during construction of each subset adding candidate entities, not yet assigned to a subset, with high affinities toward the subset and removing entities previously assigned to the subset for which the affinities toward the subset have decreased. The method and system efficiently partition data with a high probability of finding an optimal or near-optimal partitioning.