OPTIMALLY RANKED NEAREST NEIGHBOR FUZZY FULL TEXT SEARCH

Patent №

US 8,996,501

Granted

2015-03-31

Filed 2011

Owner

NAVTEQ NORTH AMERICA, LLC

Lab

AI components

4

ml · nlp · kr · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13314412

A method and system for fuzzy full text search is disclosed. The system includes an inverted index where tokens are organized in a Next Valid Character (NVC) tree. Each path through the tree defines a token. The document sets for the tokens are stored at leaf nodes. After receiving search tokens, the system traverses the NVC tree in a lazy manner by exploring paths through nodes associated with the smallest edit distance. The system provides a result set per edit distance. For example, the system provides a result set of document identifiers associated with documents having the least amount of error first, followed by result sets of document identifiers associated with documents that have progressively more error.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Knowledge representation1.00
AI hardware0.94
Machine learning0.86
Vision0.07
Planning0.04
Speech0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

NAVTEQ NORTH AMERICA, LLC

assignment · 273700391

Assignors

PFEIFLE, MARTIN

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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