REGISTRATION AND MAINTENANCE OF ADDRESS DATA FOR EACH SERVICE POINT IN A TERRITORY
First Claim
1. A method of mining address data to locate a preferred address for a parcel, comprising the steps of:
- maintaining one or more databases comprising a plurality of active shipment records and a plurality of delivery records;
receiving a current parcel bearing address indicia;
determining a preferred address corresponding to said address indicia based, at least in part, on said active shipment records and said delivery records;
assigning said preferred address to said current parcel.
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Abstract
A computer system and method is disclosed for mining current and archived address data in order to identify a preferred address for each service point in a territory. The data mining system may start in response to the presentation of a candidate address for matching The set of mined data may be prioritized by clustering like characteristics, building similarity matrices, and by constructing dendrograms with nodes joined according to common characteristics. A computer system and method for maintaining a central database of preferred addresses is also disclosed. Selected address data gathered in a queue may be scored by characteristic, grouped by consignee location, and staged for processing. The scored queue of data may be prioritized by clustering like characteristics, building similarity matrices, and by constructing dendrograms.
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32 Claims
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1. A method of mining address data to locate a preferred address for a parcel, comprising the steps of:
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maintaining one or more databases comprising a plurality of active shipment records and a plurality of delivery records; receiving a current parcel bearing address indicia; determining a preferred address corresponding to said address indicia based, at least in part, on said active shipment records and said delivery records; assigning said preferred address to said current parcel. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method of maintaining address data for a plurality of records in one or more address databases, comprising:
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maintaining one or more address databases comprising a plurality of active shipment records and a plurality of delivery records; determining a preferred address for a select active shipment record or select delivery record based, at least in part, on said active shipment records and said delivery records; updating said one or more address databases to associate said preferred address with said select active shipment record or said select delivery record. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A system for locating a preferred address for a parcel, comprising:
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one or more databases comprising a plurality of active shipment records and a plurality of delivery records; one or more processors configured to; determine a preferred address corresponding to address indicia of a current parcel based, at least in part, on said active shipment records and said delivery records; assign said preferred address to said current parcel. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A system for maintaining address data for a plurality of records in one or more address databases, comprising:
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one or more address databases comprising a plurality of active shipment records and a plurality of delivery records; one or more processors configured to determine a preferred address for a select active shipment record or a select delivery record based, at least in part, on said active shipment records and said delivery records; an address database administrator configured to assign said preferred address to said parcel and update said one or more address databases to associate said preferred address with the select active shipment record or select delivery record. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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