Patent ID: 9292567
Filing Date: 2016-03-22
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions that when executed by a computer cause the computer to: store, in a database, i) a plurality of old records each describing a given entity and ii) single best records (SBRs) that group the records by entity, where each respective SBR includes i) SBR data fields storing data that describe a respective unique entity and ii) an identifier for each record in the database that describes the entity; receive a set of new records for matching with the old records, where each new record includes a new record match field value in a selected record data field, and wherein each new record describes only a single entity such that each new record matches at most a single SBR; perform matching between each new record in the set of new records and the SBRs and: after matching has been performed for all new records in the set of new records: