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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2010
Christopher R. Dance, Grenoble, FR;
Onno Zoeter, Grenoble, FR;
Yu-an Sun, Webster, NY (US);
Venkatesh Rao, Arlington, VA (US);
Christopher R. Dance, Grenoble, FR;
Onno Zoeter, Grenoble, FR;
Yu-An Sun, Webster, NY (US);
Venkatesh Rao, Arlington, VA (US);
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for paying for an existing report are provided. In the method, an existing report for which a first structure of entities is identified is received. Thereafter, a set of other reports for which respective second structures of entities are identified is received. A weighting for other reports in the set of other reports is assigned, based on the respective structures. A payment for the existing report is extracted based on the weighting, a selected scoring rule, and the set of other reports.