Patent Document ID: 9201869
Application ID: 13899383

Base Claim:
1. A method for use in operating a computer-based tool for converting data from a first form to a second form, comprising: identifying, using the computer-based tool, a set of data to be converted from the first form to the second form, wherein the set of data is contextually indeterminate; accessing, using the computer-based tool, a plurality of schema that each include one or more conversion rules for converting data within a particular context of the data, wherein the one or more conversion rules are at least partially based on the particular context; comparing, using the computer-based tool, the set of data to at least a portion of the plurality of schema using indexed string matching that is performed independently of the context of the set of data and the plurality of schema; selecting, using the computer-based tool, a selected schema from the plurality of schema based at least partially on the comparing; and applying the one or more conversion rules of the selected schema to the set of data to convert the set of data from the first form to the second form.

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Claim 5:
5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the indexed string matching comprises: representing each of the set of data and the plurality of schema as one or more features, wherein the set of data is represented as source features and the plurality of schema are represented as target features; and compiling an index corresponding to the target features, wherein the index comprises a mapping for each target feature to each of the plurality of schema containing the target feature; determining a subset of the plurality of schema for which a similarity metric is to be calculated in relation to the set of data, wherein the subset of the plurality of schema comprises less than the entirety of the plurality of schema; and calculating a similarity metric for the set of data relative to the subset of the plurality of schema, wherein the similarity metric is at least partially based on commonality between the target features and the source features.