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Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2017

Filed:

Jun. 02, 2014
Applicant:

Wal-mart Stores, Inc., Bentonville, AR (US);

Inventors:

Fan Yang, Redwood City, CA (US);

Narasimhan Rampalli, Los Altos, CA (US);

Digvijay Lamba, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

WAL-MART STORES, INC., Bentonville, AR (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30958 (2013.01); G06F 17/30342 (2013.01); G06F 17/30587 (2013.01); G06F 17/30705 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of determining structured product information for a product from a product description using a product entity graph. The product graph can include a plurality of nodes. Each of the plurality of nodes can include an entity value key, one or more entity names, and an entity name count for each of the one or more entity names. The method can include determining k-grams of the product description. The method also can include, for each k-gram of the product description, determining a matching node of the plurality of nodes of the product entity graph that corresponds to the k-gram and determining a derived entity name for the product from the one or more entity names of the matching node based at least in part on the entity name counts corresponding to the one or more entity names. Other embodiments of related systems and methods are also disclosed.


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