Address matching system and method

摘要

An address matching system that maintains a central database of valid addresses has been designed. According to the invention, address matching requests are received by the system from a plurality of remote users located at respective machines (“clients”). Those requests are processed at the central system, and the results are returned to the client that made the request. In addition, novel techniques are implemented for improving the likelihood of obtaining one or more matches from a request.

主权项

1. A system for comparing a received address with a set of validated addresses, the system comprising:
a device configured to receive address data from a source; and an address matching server configured to:
maintain the set of validated addresses in two or more records;communicate with the device via a communication network;receive the address data from the device;structure the received address data from the device using a plurality of query permuters;compare the structured address data with the set of validated addresses maintained by the address matching server to identify two or more potential matched addresses, based on a substantial similarity between the structured address data and each of the validated addresses maintained by the address matching server, wherein the substantial similarity is determined based on a preset threshold and at least an identical match of a query permuter with a corresponding field of the set of validated addresses; andtransmit the identified two or more potential matched addresses to the device, whereinthe device is further configured to receive the transmitted two or more potential matched addresses, and wherein at least one of the received two or more potential matched addresses is selected via a user's input for printing.