Patents by Inventor Charity D. Kocher

Charity D. Kocher has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Configurable search tool for finding and scoring non-exact matches in a relational database
    Patent number: 7155427
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of searching for exact and non-exact matches in a first database includes steps of transforming and standardizing values of selected attributes stored in the first database according to selected first transformation functions while maintaining the first database unchanged; storing the transformed and standardized values of the selected attributes in a second database that is separate from the first database; providing an input record against which to compare contents of the second database; transforming and standardizing values of selected attributes of the provided input record according to selected second transformation functions, and searching only the second database for at least one of exact and non-exact matches to the transformed and standardized values of the selected attributes of the input record according to selected match rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2006
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Gautam Prothia, Alan Fothergill, Charity D. Kocher, Srinivasa Rangan, Carol Chow, Jyoti Pandey