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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2016

Filed:

Feb. 27, 2013
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Marcin Labenski, Cracow, PL;

Hari H. Madduri, Austin, TX (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30705 (2013.01); G06K 9/622 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one aspect, the description relates to identifying complementary data objects, including providing a plurality of data objects, applying a clustering algorithm for grouping at least some of the data objects into two or more clusters, for each of the clusters, calculating a cluster center, calculating, for at least a first one of the cluster centers, a complementary cluster center, determining a second cluster center of a second cluster, the second cluster center being determined as the one of the cluster centers having the smallest distance in respect to the complementary cluster center, selecting at least one data object of the determined second cluster. Other features and aspects may be realized, depending upon the particular application.


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