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June 6, 2017

Systems and Methods for Automatically Identifying and Linking Names in Digital Resources

The present invention provides systems and methods for automatically identifying name-like-strings in digital resources, matching these name-like-string against a set of names held in an expertly curated database, and for those name-like-strings found in said database, enhancing the content by associating additional matter with the name, wherein said matter includes information about the names that is held within said database and pointers to other digital resources which include the same name and it synonyms.

Parker, C.T., Lyons, C.M., Roston, G.R. and Garrity, G.M. Systems and Methods for Automatically Identifying and Linking Names in Digital Resources; 2017. United States Patent and Trademark Office.

U.S. Patent Grant No. 9,672,293 (1.4MB PDF)

[permalink] Posted June 6, 2017.

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