Patent Document ID: 7720786
Application ID: 11754185
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A computer-implemented method of identifying a loose pattern comprising: receiving at least two data segments from a data segmentation algorithm; sorting the data segments into multisets, the multisets comprising data elements that have multiple instances; performing a retain operation on each multiset to obtain a resulting multiset wherein performing the retain operation on each multiset comprises performing the retain operation, designated by operator , on a first multiset, MS 1 and a second multiset, MS 2 , wherein MS 1 retain MS 2 , MS 1 MS 2 , eliminates elements in MS 1 that do not appear in MS 2 , and MS 2 retain MS 1 , MS 2 MS 1 , eliminates elements in MS 2 that do not appear in MS 1 ; performing a normalization operation using the resulting multisets to identify a loose pattern; and storing the identified loose pattern in a database.