Patents by Inventor Martin Buechi

Martin Buechi 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).

  • Automated database blocking and record matching
    Patent number: 7152060
    Abstract: An automated blocking technique is used as a first step to find approximate matches in a database. The technique builds a blocking set to be as liberal as possible in retrieving records that match on individual fields or sets of fields while avoiding selection criteria that are predicted to return more than the maximum number of records defining a particular special requirement. The ability to do blocking without extensive manual setup at low cost is highly advantageous especially when using a machine learning based second-stage matching algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2006
    Assignee: Choicemaker Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew E. Borthwick, Martin Buechi, Arthur Goldberg
  • Automated database blocking and record matching
    Publication number: 20040019593
    Abstract: An automated blocking technique is used as a first step to find approximate matches in a database. The technique builds a blocking set to be as liberal as possible in retrieving records that match on individual fields or sets of fields while avoiding selection criteria that are predicted to return more than the maximum number of records defining a particular special requirement. The ability to do blocking without extensive manual setup at low cost is highly advantageous especially when using a machine learning based second-stage matching algorithm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2003
    Publication date: January 29, 2004
    Inventors: Andrew E. Borthwick, Martin Buechi, Arthur Goldberg