Patent Document ID: 9275339
Application ID: 13869126

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: determining a first set of possible intended person names as a function of a first person name; determining a second set of possible intended person names for each person name in a set of names in a person name variant database; probabilistically matching a person name from the first set of possible intended person names to a person name from the second set of possible intended person names; and wherein probabilistically matching includes determining a weight associated with typing the first person name but intending to type another person name in the first set of possible intended person names and determining the probability of typing a person name in the set of person names in the name variant database but intending to type a person name from the second set of possible intended person names using a hidden Markov model to model a cognitive and transcription error process associated with a user typing the person name in the set of person names in the person name variant database and disambiguate entries in the person name variant database.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the second set of possible intended person names for each person name in the set of person names in the person name variant database includes using multiple string alignment to at least partially determine the second set of possible intended person names.