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Identifying non-exactly matching text

US11163955B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateNov 2, 2020
Grant dateNov 2, 2021
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Expiry dateNov 2, 2040

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F40/295
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A computer-implemented method for matching user inputted text to stored text. The user inputted text is compared to each of the text strings stored in a database using a string similarity score determined using a Levenshtein distance algorithm, the n-gram or trigram methods, the Jaro-Winkler algorithm, the Cosine similarity algorithm, the Hamming distance algorithm, the Damerau-Levenshtein distance algorithm, or similar. For each comparison, the string similarity score is analyzed to determine exact matches, non-matches, and probable matches. Probable matches are further analyzed using a keyboard distance algorithm to differentiate between matches and non-matches.

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