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Assigning documents to entities of a database

US11593417B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Thomas Schwarz · Helotes, US
Albert Maier · Tübingen, DE
Michael Baessler · Neckartenzlingen, DE
Oliver Suhre · Stuttgart, DE
Peter Gerstl · Holzgerlingen, DE
Werner Schuetz · Nufringen, DE
Jonathan Roesner · Leimersheim, DE
Mariya Chkalova · Stuttgart, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 21, 2021
Grant date	Feb 28, 2023
Priority date	—
Expiry date	May 8, 2041

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F40/30
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In an approach, a processor groups documents into a plurality of groups based on similarity, where: documents of each group have a same document structure; and the document structure is defined by coordinates of text blocks. A processor, for each group of the plurality of groups and for each document of the respective group: retrieves a value of each text block of the respective document in accordance with a document structure of the group; and assigns to each text block of the respective document an attribute that represents the retrieved value of the text block. A processor assigns a first document of the documents to an entity of a database that matches the first document based on the group of text block values and the assigned attributes of the document.

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