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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 08, 2013
Applicant:
Stamps.com, El Segundo, CA (US);
Inventor:
Richard Baker Winslow, Culver City, CA (US);
Assignee:
Stamps.com, El Segundo, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G07B 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30483 (2013.01); G07B 2017/00451 (2013.01); Y10S 707/99932 (2013.01); G07B 2017/00596 (2013.01); G07B 17/00508 (2013.01); Y10S 707/912 (2013.01); Y10S 707/99933 (2013.01); Y10S 707/99935 (2013.01); Y10S 707/99931 (2013.01);
Abstract
An address matching system that maintains a central database of valid addresses has been designed. According to the invention, address matching requests are received by the system from a plurality of remote users located at respective machines ('clients'). Those requests are processed at the central system, and the results are returned to the client that made the request. In addition, novel techniques are implemented for improving the likelihood of obtaining one or more matches from a request.