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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 19, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2003
Andrew E. Borthwick, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Martin Buechi, New York, NY (US);
Arthur Goldberg, New York, NY (US);
Andrew E. Borthwick, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Martin Buechi, New York, NY (US);
Arthur Goldberg, New York, NY (US);
Choicemaker Technologies, Inc., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
An automated blocking technique is used as a first step to find approximate matches in a database. The technique builds a blocking set to be as liberal as possible in retrieving records that match on individual fields or sets of fields while avoiding selection criteria that are predicted to return more than the maximum number of records defining a particular special requirement. The ability to do blocking without extensive manual setup at low cost is highly advantageous especially when using a machine learning based second-stage matching algorithm.