Patent ID: 9576248
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06N

Claim:
1. A system for sharing record linkage information, comprised of: a) a record linkage server, wherein the record linkage server is further comprised of: b) a record linkage client, wherein the record linkage client communicates with the record linkage server over a network, to processes record linkage functions for a user; wherein the user employs the record linkage system, communicating via the record linkage client, to perform record linking on a first data set and a second data set, wherein both the first and second data sets have fields, which are matched to a domain stored in the record linkage repository; wherein further the record linkage client calls the linkage services component on the record linkage server, such that the linkage services component calculates a comparison vector and via a classification function performs a sensitivity analysis to determine the label of the comparison vector; wherein the linkage services component is further configured with a domain classification trainer, such that the domain classification trainer is configured to train classification functions with the training data for each domain, stored in the record linkage repository, via a method of machine learning; such that the plurality of users share record linkage domain information stored in the record linkage repository, and perform record linking via the domain classifier of the record linkage server, such that the plurality of users do not have access to the shared record linkage training data; whereby a user is enabled to perform record linking and add information for a domain to the training data, such that the training data is used to train the classification functions for the domain.