Patent Document ID: 20130031089
Application ID: 13193412
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method to search for an entity in an entity resolution system, comprising: receiving, using a processor of a computer, search input comprising one or more attribute values of one or more attribute types; performing a resolution search to generate a search result set comprising one or more entities and zero or more generic attribute values for generating additional entities; determining whether the resolution search generated one or more generic attribute values; in response to determining that the resolution search generated zero generic attribute values, returning the search result set; and in response to determining that the resolution search generated at least two generic attribute values, performing one or more query searches for a unique generic group by generic attribute type to identify the additional entities, wherein the unique generic group comprises a subset of the search input and includes at least two generic attribute types; combining the identified additional entities with the entities in the search result set; and returning the search result set.