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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2012
Kimberly Ann Martin, Maryville, IL (US);
Richard Thomas Flynn, Defiance, MO (US);
Gary Randall Horn, O'Fallon, MO (US);
David Anthony Fink, Chesterfield, MO (US);
Thomas Joseph Sellner, Dardenne Prairie, MO (US);
Kimberly Ann Martin, Maryville, IL (US);
Richard Thomas Flynn, Defiance, MO (US);
Gary Randall Horn, O'Fallon, MO (US);
David Anthony Fink, Chesterfield, MO (US);
Thomas Joseph Sellner, Dardenne Prairie, MO (US);
MasterCard International Incorporated, Purchase, NY (US);
Abstract
A solution to disambiguate ambiguous merchant data in connection with processing a cashless transaction request in a real-time manner. Provided according to the present disclosure are a system and method including a binary-searchable non-transitory computer-readable medium is configure to store a first set of unambiguous merchant identification data having plural data entries therein, each entry corresponding to a merchant. A binary search of the first set of unambiguous merchant identification data is carried out using search keys based upon the ambiguous merchant identification data to determine whether one or more entries of the first set satisfies at least one of a hierarchical second set of partial match criteria for comparing the ambiguous merchant identification data with the first set of unambiguous merchant identification data. An entry of the first set of unambiguous merchant identification data is assigned to correspond with the ambiguous merchant identification data where at least a predetermined number of the second set of partial match criteria are met.