System and method for improving resolution of channel data
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1. A system for managing product distribution, comprising:
- one or more reference record databases;
one or more reference records within the reference record databases, each reference record providing an association between business information and geo-coded spatial data regarding a product;
transaction data wherein said transaction data includes geo-coded spatial data associated with said transaction data;
a candidate identification mechanism for determining more than one candidate reference record from one of the reference record databases using geo-coded spatial data from the transaction data;
responsive to determining more than one candidate reference records, a matching mechanism for matching at least one candidate reference record from the determined more than one candidate reference records to the transaction data using a lexical matching process;
storing in memory a match identifier associated with the match between the at least one candidate reference record from the determined more than one candidate reference records and the transaction data and,distributing the product to a consumer via a distribution channel.
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Abstract
Disclosed are methods for processing distribution channel data integrating business information with geographic data to produce integrated data, wherein the integrated data has greater resolution than the business information. Distribution channel data is captured and correlated with the integrated data to increase the resolution of the distribution channel data.
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1. A system for managing product distribution, comprising:
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one or more reference record databases; one or more reference records within the reference record databases, each reference record providing an association between business information and geo-coded spatial data regarding a product; transaction data wherein said transaction data includes geo-coded spatial data associated with said transaction data; a candidate identification mechanism for determining more than one candidate reference record from one of the reference record databases using geo-coded spatial data from the transaction data; responsive to determining more than one candidate reference records, a matching mechanism for matching at least one candidate reference record from the determined more than one candidate reference records to the transaction data using a lexical matching process; storing in memory a match identifier associated with the match between the at least one candidate reference record from the determined more than one candidate reference records and the transaction data and, distributing the product to a consumer via a distribution channel. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A computer implemented method for identifying participants in a distribution channel, comprising:
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generating a transaction record comprising business and spatial data that identifies at least one channel participant, wherein business data includes data about distribution of a product via the distribution channel; geo-coding spatial data within the transaction record; providing a reference record database comprising a plurality of reference records wherein each reference record comprises business and spatial information, and wherein spatial information associated with each reference record is geo-coded; determining at least one match between the transaction record and the plurality of reference records based on a comparative analysis of both lexical matching of transaction record business data to reference record business information and association of the transaction geo-coded spatial data with reference record geo-coded spatial information; and storing in memory a match identifier associated with the at least one match between the transaction record and the plurality of reference records. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17)
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18. A computer-based method for resolving ambiguous transaction records, comprising:
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storing reference records in memory that each provide an association between business information and spatial data, the spatial data including a geocode and the business information including information regarding distributing a product via a distribution channel; with a resolver mechanism running on a computer having access to the memory, receiving a transaction record comprising transaction information and location information; operating the resolver mechanism to parse the location information in the transaction record and generate a transaction geocode based on the parsed location information; comparing the generated transaction geocode with the reference record geocodes to select one or more candidate reference records from the stored reference records; performing lexical processing of the selected one or more candidate reference records; and based on the lexical processing, matching the received transaction record to one of the selected one or more candidate reference records wherein a match identifier associated with the match between the received transaction record and one of the selected one or more candidate reference records is stored in memory. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21)
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