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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 22, 1999
David B. Wheeler, Austin, TX (US);
Matthew J. Clay, Austin, TX (US);
Infoglide Corporation, Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
The present invention is a computer-implemented method for detecting and scoring similarities between documents in a source database and a search criteria. It uses a hierarchy of parent and child categories to be searched, linking each child category with its parent category. Source database documents are converted into hierarchical database documents having parent and child objects with data values organized using the hierarchy of parent and child categories to be searched. For each child object, a child object score is calculated that is a quantitative measurement of the similarity between the hierarchical database documents and the search criteria. A parent object score is computed from its child object scores using an algorithm.