Patent ID: 8396877

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving data from a plurality of disparate data sources, the plurality of data sources comprising data associated with a plurality of different people, at least two different data sources comprising data associated with at least one common person; extracting a plurality of records, the plurality of records comprising at least one record from each of the plurality of disparate data sources, each extracted record associated with a corresponding person and comprising at least one feature associated with the corresponding person; distributing the plurality of records to a plurality of computers configured to identify one or more matches between the plurality of records based on at least one matching feature associated with two or more different records; merging the at least one feature from each of the two or more different records of each corresponding match into one or more merged records, each of the one or more merged records corresponding to a different match of the one or more matches; and generating at least one fused view, the at least one fused view associated with the at least one common person and comprising at least a first merged record comprising at least a first matching feature associated with two or more different records associated with the at least one common person.