Patent Document ID: 20120185478
Application ID: 13007907
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. In an apparatus, a method of extracting, merging, and systematizing organization names from text, comprising: extracting organization-related text from a database; identifying one or more phrases contained in said text; associating organization entities with at least one country, email address, URL, street address, city, or state of a portion of said phrases based upon the content of said phrases; assigning at least a portion of the remaining phrases as organization entities, based upon the content of said phrases and whether nearby phrases have been assigned as organization entities; performing a first unsupervised clustering wherein said organization entities are grouped into a first plurality of clusters based upon geopolitical entity and a modified edit distance metric; performing a second unsupervised clustering wherein said first plurality of clusters are clustered into one or more second clusters based upon geopolitical entity and at least one similarity metric based on centroids of said first plurality of clusters; and designating a normalized organization name for each second cluster based upon predetermined criteria.