Patent ID: 8832041
Filing Date: 2014-09-09
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for identifying duplicate entries within a set of entries, the method comprising: receiving the set of entries, wherein each entry comprises a set of field values associated with field types, the set of field values comprising non-blank field values; calculating a hash value for plural ones of the non-blank field values in at least a subset of the set of entries; determining that a hash value of a first field value in a first entry corresponds to a hash value of a second field value in a second entry, wherein the first field value and the second field value comprise non-blank field values; determining that each non-blank field value in the first entry does not conflict with each non-blank field value in the second entry by: providing, in response to determining that each non-blank field value in the first entry does not conflict with each non-blank field value in the second entry, an indication that the first entry and the second entry comprise duplicate entries.