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Processing names in a text

  • US 5,819,265 A
  • Filed: 07/12/1996
  • Issued: 10/06/1998
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/12/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A system of one or more computers for processing names in one or more documents of text, the system comprising:

  • a central processing unit (CPU) and a memory within each of the computers;

    a database;

    a tokenized text in the form of one or more strings of characters, each string being a token;

    a name data structure having a plurality of named elements, each named element having a string and one or more attributes associated with the string;

    a name extraction processor that scans, selects, and concatenates one or more of the tokens to create a raw name that is entered as a string value in the string of one of the named elements, where the name extraction processor is capable of creating a candidate name from each of one or more of the raw names by one or both of the following name processes;

    cleaning the string value and splitting the string value.

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