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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 19, 2014
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Shudong Huang, Vienna, VA (US);
Jeffrey J. Jonas, Las Vegas, NV (US);
Brian E. Macy, Henderson, NV (US);
Frankie E. Patman Maguire, Washington, DC (US);
Charles K. Williams, Oak Hill, VA (US);
Assignee:
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/27 (2006.01); G06F 17/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/273 (2013.01); G06F 17/278 (2013.01);
Abstract
A similarity between character strings is assessed by identifying first and second character strings as candidate similar character strings, determining a frequency of occurrence for at least one of the first and second character strings from a collection of character strings, and designating the first and second character strings as similar based on the determined frequency of occurrence.