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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:
Apr. 07, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2004
Applicants:
Rajeev Motwani, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Surajit Chaudhuri, Redmond, WA (US);
Venkatesh Ganti, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Rajeev Motwani, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Surajit Chaudhuri, Redmond, WA (US);
Venkatesh Ganti, Redmond, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
At least one implementation, described herein, detects fuzzy duplicates and eliminates such duplicates. Fuzzy duplicates are multiple, seemingly distinct tuples (i.e., records) in a database that represent the same real-world entity or phenomenon.