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Selecting candidate rows for deduplication

US8719236B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateAug 23, 2012
Grant dateMay 6, 2014
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Expiry dateAug 23, 2032

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F16/1727
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for selecting candidate records for deduplication from a table. A table can be processed to compute an inverse index for each field of the table. A deduplication algorithm can traverse the inverse indices in accordance with a flexible user-defined policy to identify candidate records for deduplication. Both exact matches and approximate matches can be found.

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