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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2014
Sas Institute Inc., Cary, NC (US);
SAS INSTITUTE INC., Cary, NC (US);
Abstract
Techniques to block records for matching are described. Some embodiments are particularly directed to techniques to block records for matching entities with inconsistent identifying information. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may comprise a configuration component, a coding component, a blocking component, and a matching component. The configuration component may be operative to receive a data set comprising a plurality of records and operative to receive a set of blocking variables, the blocking variables present as variables in each of the plurality of records. The coding component operative to generate match codes based on the blocking variables. The blocking component operative on the processor circuit to produce a plurality of blocks of records from the data set based on the match codes. The matching component operative to match records within each of the plurality of blocks by performing deterministic or probabilistic entity resolution based on similar variables of the records within each of the blocks. Other embodiments are described and claimed.