Patent Document ID: 7991787
Application ID: 10931729
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A computer-implemented method for name searching within an employee records database comprising: receiving, by a computer processor, a full name as a text string; searching, by the processor, an employee records database for an exact match of the full name; forming, by the processor, a first selection group of names from the employee records database using an exact searching algorithm which determines an extent to which portions of a first size of the names of the employee records database match portions of the first size of the text string; forming, by the processor, a second selection group of names from the first selection group using a fuzzy searching algorithm which determines an extent to which portions of a second size of the names of the first selection group match portions of the second size of the text string, wherein the second size is smaller than the first size; displaying, by the processor and in a display device, the second selection group as a ranked list of names; and allowing, by the processor, a selection of a name from the displayed ranked list of names.