US 7,065,484 B2 · Method and systems for screening Chinese address data

Abstract

A system provides for identifying orders in an order management system which are to proscribed individuals or organizations having Chinese addresses. The Chinese address items of the order management database, and the Chinese address items of a database of proscribed individuals and organizations, are each converted into respective databases in a common writing system, namely the Pin Yin transliteration standard. In the conversion process, Simplified Mandarin items in the order management database which can be converted in multiple ways are converted in each of those ways. The converted items from the two Pin Yin databases are then compared.

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Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method for comparing multiple databases which each comprise Chinese text data items specifying addresses, the method comprising:

for each of the databases, converting any of the Chinese text data items which are not in a predefined common Chinese language format into that common format, any items in double-byte form in at least a first of the databases which are convertible into the common format in multiple ways being converted in all those ways in a first string of representations;
and
comparing the data items in the common format, to identify Chinese text data items in the first database corresponding to Chinese text data items in a second string of representations in a second of the databases.

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Method and systems for screening Chinese address data

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Method and systems for screening Chinese address data

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