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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2008
Filed:
Aug. 03, 2005
Sudipto Guha, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Nikolas Koudas, Toronto, CA;
Amit Marathe, Woodbridge, NJ (US);
Divesh Srivastava, Summit, NJ (US);
Sudipto Guha, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Nikolas Koudas, Toronto, CA;
Amit Marathe, Woodbridge, NJ (US);
Divesh Srivastava, Summit, NJ (US);
AT&T Corp, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A device and a method are provided. Approximate match operations are performed for each of a group of attributes for each of a group of tuples with respect to a query to create a respective ranking for each of the group of attributes. The rankings of the group of attributes are combined to provide a ranking score for each of the group of tuples. Data representing a ranking score of each of the group of tuples is generated according to a position of a respective ranking of each one of the group of tuples for a first k positions of the ranking. K of top ranked ones of the group of tuples are identified based at least in part on the generated data, wherein a number of the group of tuples is n and k<n.