Patent ID: 9659086
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A computer implemented method for foreign organization name matching, the method comprising: receiving a first entity name from a first database, wherein the first database includes a plurality of entity names in a first language; receiving a second database, wherein the second database includes a plurality of entity names in a second language, wherein the first language is different from the second language; performing an Internet search query based on the first entity name, wherein a language setting of the Internet search query is configured to the second language, wherein performing the Internet search query includes simultaneously searching both the first entity name in the first language and one or more entity types in the second language in a single search string, wherein the one or more entity types is associated with a business type, wherein the business type is one of a company type, LLC, LLP, and incorporation; identifying a list of candidate names based on a set of results from the Internet search query; filtering the list of candidate names to obtain a resulting candidate name, wherein the filtering removes one or more candidate names from the list based on a translation of one or more of the first entity names, wherein the translation is between the first language and the second language; determining whether the resulting candidate name matches one of the plurality of entity names in the second database; based on the determining whether the resulting candidate name matches one of the plurality of entity names in the second database, creating an association between the first entity name in the first database and a matching entity name in the second database; based on a determination that the resulting candidate name does not match one of the plurality of entity names of the second database, performing a second Internet search query based on the resulting candidate name, wherein a language setting of the second Internet search query is configured to the second language; identifying a second list of candidate names based on a set of results from the second Internet search query; filtering the second list of candidate names to obtain a second resulting candidate name; and determining there is no match between the resulting candidate name and the second resulting candidate name, calculating a confidence level to determine the association between the resulting candidate name and the second resulting candidate name, wherein the confidence level reflects a correspondence chance between the first language and the second language.