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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2005
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2004
Peter Lo, Lake Forest, CA (US);
Peter Lo, Lake Forest, CA (US);
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
A method including the steps of:) receiving () a search record; generating () at least one hierarchical cluster, each having a different minimum quality level; for each cluster, generating () at least one corresponding search package having a first set of search prints; selecting the highest quality cluster (), a search package () and corresponding file records for performing a search (); determining () whether a hit was found between any file print in the corresponding file records and any search print in the selected search package; and proceeding with the search process through the remaining quality clusters in an order based on decreasing quality until a match is found or until there are no remaining file records against which to compare a search package.