Geographic feature name reduction using phonetic algorithms
First Claim
Patent Images
1. A method of modifying a geographic database comprising:
- obtaining, from the geographic database, a set of geographic names associated with the same, or a portion of the same geographic feature,creating geographic-phonetic strings for the geographic names;
determining a subset of the set of geographic names, the subset including geographic names that are both associated with the same, or a portion of the same, geographic feature and that have the same geographic-phonetic string so as to remove typographical errors and duplicative geographic names from the set of geographic names; and
selecting a preferred geographic name for the subset and modifying the geographic database to preferentially flag the preferred geographic name so selected, as compared to the geographic names not so selected, wherein the determining of the subset uses the geographic-phonetic strings.
6 Assignments
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention concern a way of using geographic-phonetic strings, such as modified geographic-phonetic strings, for constructing a geographic database for use with geographic applications.
-
Citations
30 Claims
-
1. A method of modifying a geographic database comprising:
-
obtaining, from the geographic database, a set of geographic names associated with the same, or a portion of the same geographic feature, creating geographic-phonetic strings for the geographic names; determining a subset of the set of geographic names, the subset including geographic names that are both associated with the same, or a portion of the same, geographic feature and that have the same geographic-phonetic string so as to remove typographical errors and duplicative geographic names from the set of geographic names; and selecting a preferred geographic name for the subset and modifying the geographic database to preferentially flag the preferred geographic name so selected, as compared to the geographic names not so selected, wherein the determining of the subset uses the geographic-phonetic strings. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
-
-
8. A computer readable storage medium storing code to implement a method of modifying a geographic database comprising the steps of:
-
obtaining a set of geographic names, from the geographic database, associated with the same, or a portion of the same geographic feature; creating geographic-phonetic strings for the geographic names; determining a subset of the geographic names, the subset including geographic names that are both associated with the same, or a portion of the same, geographic feature and that have the same geographic-phonetic string so as to remove typographical errors and duplicative geographic names from the set of geographic names; and selecting a preferred geographic name for the subset and modifying the geographic database to flag the preferred geographic name so selected preferentially as compared to the geographic names not so selected, wherein the determining of the subset uses the geographic-phonetic strings. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
-
Specification