US 2018/0121520 A1Published application

Fuzzy matching of entity data across multiple storage systems

AssigneeLinkedIn Corporation

InventorsChris Degiere, Aarti Kumar, Xian Li, Alexander Power, Derek Ribbons

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Abstract

Techniques for performing a fuzzy match of data from multiple sources are provided. In one technique, an email address of a sender of an email message is extracted from the email message. The email address is used to retrieve, from a first data source, first entity data about one or more entities, such as users. The first entity data is used to retrieve, from a second data source, second entity data about one or more entities. First data that pertains to the sender and that originates from the first data source is combined with second data that pertains to the sender and that originates from the second data source to generate sender data. The sender data is then presented via an email client that displays the email message.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A system comprising:

one or more processors;
one or more storage media storing instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause:
identifying one or more data items that have been extracted from an electronic message that is directed to a particular entity, wherein the one or more data items includes an email address of a sender of the electronic message;
based on the one or more data items, identifying one or more first entities stored in a first database system that is remote from an email client executing on a client device associated with the particular entity;
based on the one or more first entities, identifying one or more second entities stored in a second database system that is remote from the email client and that is different than the first database system;
retrieving, from the first database system, first data that pertains to an entity in the one or more first entities;
retrieving, from the second database system, second data that pertains to an entity in the one or more second entities;
combining the first data and the second data to generate sender data about the sender;
causing the sender data to be presented to the particular entity via the email client.

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A system comprising:

one or more processors;
one or more storage media storing instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause:
identifying one or more data items that have been extracted from an electronic message that is directed to a particular entity, wherein the one or more data items includes an email address of a sender of the electronic message;
based on the one or more data items, retrieving, from a social network service, profile data about the sender;
based on the one or more data items, retrieving record data about the sender from an entity database that is separate from the social network service and that stores data about a plurality of entities;
combining at least a portion of the profile data and at least a portion of the record data to generate sender data about the sender;
causing the sender data to be presented via an email client executing on a client device associated with the particular entity.

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A system comprising:

one or more processors;
one or more storage media storing instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause:
extracting a plurality of data items from an electronic message that is directed to a particular entity, wherein the plurality of data items includes one or more portions of an email address of a sender of the electronic message;
based on the plurality of data items, retrieving first data about the sender from a first database system that is remote relative to a client device associated with the particular entity;
based on the plurality of data items, retrieving second data about the sender from a second database system that is different than the first database system and that is remote relative to the client device associated with the particular entity;
combining the first data and the second data to generate sender data about the sender;
causing the sender data to be displayed in an email client executing on the client device associated with the particular entity.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/339,703Filed 31 Oct 2016
Published: 3 May 2018
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

G06F 16/2468
Special types of queries, e.g. statistical queries, fuzzy queries or distributed queries: fuzzy queries
G06F 16/24578
With adaptation to user needs: using ranking
G06F 16/248
Querying: presentation of query results
H04L 51/04
User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail: real-time or…