# US 8,463,750 B2 · System and method for matching and assembling records

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- Number: US 8,463,750 B2
- Document ID: US8463750B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 13/425,271
- Filed: 2012-03-20
- Published: 2012-09-06
- Granted: 2013-06-11
- Earliest claimed: 2003-02-27
- Assignees: Parity Computing, Inc.
- Applicants: Zunaid H. Kazi; Christopher D. Rosin; Ramamohan Paturi; Holden P. Robbins; Mark W. S. Land
- Inventors: Zunaid H. Kazi; Christopher D. Rosin; Ramamohan Paturi; Holden P. Robbins; Mark W. S. Land
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US8463750B2

## CPC

- G06F 16/313: {Selection or weighting of terms for indexing}
- G06F 2216/11: Patent retrieval
- G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

## Abstract

A system and method for matching and assembling records is provided. One embodiment of the invention assembles records by applying a method for grouping records based on matching fields, assembling a new record as a composite of the matched records, and then repeating the grouping, matching and assembly steps in a cascade where the matching, grouping and assembly steps are modified as a function of the cascade step and the assembled records created in earlier steps.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A non-transitory computer readable medium having computer executable program code embodied thereon, the computer executable program code configured to cause a computing device to label a field within a record by:
providing an unlabeled field;
comparing the unlabeled field with a labeled field;
identifying the labeled field within the unlabeled field; and
assigning a same field label from the labeled field to the unlabeled field, wherein the field label is a concept identifier from an ontology.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the ontology comprises the MesH ontology.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the ontology comprises a set of concepts specified in a particular way and used to categorize and identify products and services.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the ontology includes concept identifiers for medical words and phrases.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the label is assigned only to a substring of the unlabeled field.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein comparing the unlabeled field with the labeled field comprises generating a match score that represents an amount of similarity between the unlabeled field and the labeled field.

### Claim 7 (depends on 6)

The computer readable medium of claim 6, wherein generating the match score comprises generating a numerical value for each of the unlabeled field and the labeled field.

### Claim 8 (depends on 6)

The computer readable medium of claim 6, wherein the match score is generated by a model derived via machine learning.