US 2014/0006423 A1Published application

Systems and methods for matching media content data

AssigneeUnited Video Properties, Inc.

InventorsMark A. Melnychenko, Beth A. Gehman, Susan E. Grant, Jason Mowry, Jill Mowry, Kenneth Murphy, Victoria Tang, Xiaomin Wang, Jennifer M. Wolfe, Paul Wolfe

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Abstract

Methods and systems are described herein for managing an aggregation database. Matching rules that describe filters may be defined to determine how to match a media content record received from an external source to a stored record in the aggregation database. Fuzzy matching may be used to match attribute fields of the received record and stored records. Based on the results of the fuzzy matching, the received primary media content record may be linked to a stored record in the aggregation database.

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Dependent claims

A method of managing an aggregation database comprising:

receiving a primary media content record from an external source;
comparing a group of attributes of the received primary media content record against a corresponding group of attributes of each candidate media content record of a first set of candidate media content records stored in the aggregation database;
computing an attribute score for each compared attribute of each candidate media content record of the first set based on the comparing;
computing a composite score for each candidate media content record of the first set of candidate media content records by:
multiplying the attribute score of each compared attribute of each candidate media content record by a corresponding weight to generate a weighted attribute score, and
adding the weighted attribute scores of a candidate media content record to generate the composite score;
and
linking the received primary media content record to a stored candidate media content record based on the generated composite scores.

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A system for managing an aggregation database comprising:

control circuitry configured to:
receive a primary media content record from an external source;
compare a group of attributes of the received primary media content record against a corresponding group of attributes of each candidate media content record of a first set of candidate media content records stored in the aggregation database;
compute an attribute score for each compared attribute of each candidate media content record based on the comparing;
compute a composite score for each candidate media content record of the first set of candidate media content records by:
multiply the attribute score of each compared attribute of each candidate media content record by a corresponding weight to generate a weighted attribute score, and
add the weighted attribute scores of a candidate media content record to generate the composite score;
and
link the received primary media content record to a stored candidate media content record based on the generated composite scores.

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