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Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2014

Filed:

Nov. 16, 2012
Applicant:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Anitha Kannan, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inmar-Ella Givoni, Toronto, CA;

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/18 (2006.01); G06Q 30/00 (2012.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30997 (2013.01); G06Q 30/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and apparatus for electronically matching an electronic offer to structured data for a product offering is disclosed. The structure data is reviewed and a dictionary of terms for each attribute from the structure data is created. Attributes in unstructured text may be determined. Each pair of the attributes (name and value) from the unstructured data and the structured data are obtained, the attribute pairs of the structured data and the unstructured data and compared and a similarity level is calculated for the matching the attribute pairs. The structured data pair that has the highest similarity score to the unstructured data pair is selected and returned.


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