Patent Document ID: 8862587
Application ID: 13204308

Base Claim:
1. A method for automatically generating a profile of a person, comprising: for each of a plurality of names, assuming a name characteristic that people with the name typically have, comprising: receiving, for a name of a person and from a plurality of third parties, information indicating a characteristic that people with the name of the person typically have; and calculating a confidence value associated with the characteristic as the percentage of the third parties that associated the characteristic with the name; storing the name characteristic in association with each of the plurality of names, wherein the name characteristic associated with each of the stored names is each associated with the calculated confidence value; receiving, at a computing device, a name of an individual person; determining, by a processor of the computing device, whether the received name of the individual person matches any of the plurality of stored names; and in response to determining that the received name matches a first of the stored names: identifying the name characteristic associated with the first stored name that matches the received name; determining a characteristic of the person based on the identified name characteristic; and returning the determined characteristic of the person.

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Claim 6:
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining a characteristic of the person includes detecting a pattern in the received name.