Patent ID: 8595219

Claim:
A method for matching a first address and a second address using a processor, the first address and the second address each associated with one or more consumers, the method comprising: receiving the first address and the second address at the processor; contextually identifying a first address part of the first address and a second address part of the second address, using the processor, wherein the first address part and the second address part each have an address part type that is alike, and wherein contextually identifying comprises: deterministically evaluating a first string in the first address to identify the first address part and a second string in the second address to identify the second address part, using the processor; and extracting first data from the first address and second data from the second address using the processor, based on the address part type of the first address part and the second address part; normalizing, using the processor, the first address part to produce a first normalized address part and the second address part to produce a second normalized address part, based on a normalization rule; comparing the first normalized address part and the second normalized address part, using the processor; calculating a contextual matching score, based on comparing the first normalized address part and the second normalized address part, using the processor; performing a free format token analysis of the first address and the second address, using the processor; calculating a free format matching score, based on performing the free format token analysis of the first address and the second address, using the processor; calculating an address likeness score, based on the contextual matching score and the free format matching score, using the processor; and transmitting the address likeness score from the processor.