Patent ID: 7152060
Filing Date: 2006-12-19
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. In a system including a database stored in at least one computer's data storage and a data record stored in computer memory, said database comprising plural records, said plural database records comprising data fields, said data record stored in computer memory including data fields, there being a correspondence between at least a subset of data fields of said data record stored in computer memory and at least a subset of the data fields of said records of said database, a method for identifying records in said database which are similar enough to said data record stored in computer memory that they might describe the same person or thing as that described by said data record stored in computer memory, said method comprising: a. inputting a value which will be used to limit the number of records similar to said data record stored in computer memory to be identified within said database; b. creating a set of sets of fields in said data record stored in computer memory, where the i c. selecting or constructing a database query to retrieve from said database the records which store the same values as said data record stored in computer memory in all the corresponding fields in at least one set of said set of sets of fields, and d. executing said database query to retrieve said retrieved records from said database into computer memory.