Patent ID: 8150848

Claim:
A method of geocoding a multi-feature address, comprising: (a) receiving an address term comprising a region and two or more features; (b) splitting the address term into the region, at least a first feature and second feature, and at least one or more delimiters, wherein a start or an end of each feature is determined by the one or more of the delimiters, and wherein the first feature includes two or more components, and the second feature includes one or more components; for each component of each feature in the address term: (c) determining at least one geocode based on the splitted region and the component, wherein two or more geocodes are determined for at least one component of the first feature, (d) determining a component confidence score inversely related to a number of geocodes determined in (c) for the component, and (e) determining a component geocode representing a location of the component based on the at least one geocode determined in (c); (f) for each feature in the address term, selecting a feature geocode representing a location of the feature as the component geocode determined in (e) having a greatest corresponding component confidence score determined in (d); and (g) determining an address geocode based on every feature geocode selected in (f), wherein steps (a)-(g) are each performed on at least one computing device.