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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2009
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2005
James Bell, Glenfield, GB;
Megan A. Beynon, Coventry, GB;
Benjamin P. Delo, Abingdon, GB;
Andrew J. Flegg, Rugby, GB;
Julian Friedman, Manchester, GB;
Philipp Offermann, Berlin, DE;
James Bell, Glenfield, GB;
Megan A. Beynon, Coventry, GB;
Benjamin P. Delo, Abingdon, GB;
Andrew J. Flegg, Rugby, GB;
Julian Friedman, Manchester, GB;
Philipp Offermann, Berlin, DE;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Mechanisms for generating a set of one or more elements of a fingerprint for a document, the document comprising a semantic construct having one or more ordered words, are provided. With these mechanisms, a range of sizes for a fingerprint element is defined and ordered words of the semantic construct are divided into a set of one or more mutually exclusive fingerprint elements. Each of the one or more mutually exclusive fingerprint elements includes a number of adjacent words, the number being within the range of sizes for a fingerprint element. Responsive to a determination that the set of mutually exclusive fingerprint elements excludes a word from the semantic construct, the excluded word is discarded.