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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2009
Jens Nicholas Wessling, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Robert Dennis Kahlbaum, Ypsilanti, MI (US);
Dustin James Williams, Dexter, MI (US);
Jens Nicholas Wessling, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Robert Dennis Kahlbaum, Ypsilanti, MI (US);
Dustin James Williams, Dexter, MI (US);
Rovi Technologies Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and a system are provided for structuring and searching data in a hierarchical confidence-based configuration. In one example, the system receives data and assigns a confidence quality tier to the data. The confidence quality tier is in a range that spans from a highest confidence quality tier inclusive to a lowest confidence quality tier inclusive. Data of a particular confidence quality tier is configured to be searched before data of a relatively lower confidence quality tier. The system organizes the data in a selected server of a server system according to the confidence quality tier. The selected server is in the range that spans from the highest confidence quality tier inclusive to the lowest confidence quality tier inclusive.