Patent ID: 11880377
Assignee: EXPERIAN INFORMATION SOLUTIONS, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving, by a computing system, an entity search query via user interaction with a user interface, the entity search query including an input string that includes a partial business name of an entity for which a user would like to retrieve information, wherein the partial business name does not uniquely identify the entity;
determining, by the computing system, initial candidate matching entities by at least performing initial string matching relative to a plurality of stored business records for a plurality of entities;
generating, by the computing system, a name match score for each of the initial candidate matching entities relative to the input string, wherein generating the name match score for each of the initial candidate matching entities utilizes at least two matching approaches, the at least two matching approaches comprising a string matching approach and a fuzzy matching approach;
applying, by the computing system, a probability match model based at least in part on attributes stored in association with each of the initial candidate matching entities to generate an overall match score for each of at least a subset of the initial candidate matching entities; and
generating, by the computing system, a response to the entity search query, the response including information, for display in the user interface, regarding one or more of the initial candidate matching entities having an overall match score exceeding a threshold.