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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2014
The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation, Short Hills, NJ (US);
Anthony J. Scriffignano, West Caldwell, NJ (US);
Warwick Matthews, Madison, NJ (US);
Michael Klein, Chatham, NJ (US);
THE DUN & BRADSTREET CORPORATION, Short Hills, NJ (US);
Abstract
There is provided a method that includes (a) receiving data that describes a location, (b) extrapolating, from the data, an address associated with the location, (c) identifying a segment of a thoroughfare that includes the address, (d) defining a polygon that has a perimeter that encompasses a geographic region that is in a vicinity of the segment, (e) obtaining geo-coordinates of a point within the polygon, (f) identifying an address at the geo-coordinates, and (g) identifying an entity that is associated with the address at the geo-coordinates. There is also provided a system that performs the method, and a storage device that contains instructions that control a processor to perform the method.