| The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation Patent applications |
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| 20120117045 | ENHANCING AN INQUIRY FOR A SEARCH OF A DATABASE - A database searching, and more particularly, to a technique that utilizes a result from matching an inquiry to data in a first database, and based thereon, prepares an inquiry for a search of a second database. In this regard there is provided a method that includes (a) receiving a first inquiry, (b) matching the first inquiry to first data in a first database, (c) preparing a second inquiry based on the first data, (d) transmitting the second inquiry to a search engine that searches a second database and returns second data, and (e) returning the second data in a response to the first inquiry. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120109834 | AUTOMATED BUSINESS AND INDIVIDUAL RISK MANAGEMENT AND VALIDATION PROCESS - The system includes a unique automated and reusable validation process in support of the issuance of the registration seal. This includes the following: (1) individual identity validation; (2) individual/business association validation; and (3) business status validation. These services will be utilized to provide validation in real-time during the product ordering process, as well as the ongoing user and business status validations. In addition, a set of pre-established business rules are used to provide: (a) when the rules are satisfied, utilization of the registration seal is permitted, or (b) when the rules have not been met, the registration seal is revoked. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20110258232 | ASCRIBING ACTIONABLE ATTRIBUTES TO DATA THAT DESCRIBES A PERSONAL IDENTITY - There is provided a method that includes (a) receiving an inquiry to initiate a search for data for a specific individual, (b) determining, based on the inquiry, a strategy and flexible predictiveness equations to search a reference database, (c) searching the reference database, in accordance with the strategy, for a match to the inquiry; and (d) outputting the match. The method may also output flexible feedback related to the match that reflects inferred quality of the match experience which can be used by an end-user to determine the degree to which the matched entity meets that end-user's quality-based criteria. There is also provided a system that performs the method, and a storage medium that contains instructions that control a processor to perform the method. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110218985 | LOCATION-AWARE BUSINESS DATA RETRIEVAL - There is provided a method that includes (a) sending to a geocoding service, an indicator of a location, where the geocoding service returns a bounding box that defines a geographic area, (b) sending to a search engine, a first query that includes the bounding box and a first parameter, where the search engine returns an identifier of a first business entity located within the geographic area and an indicator of an industry in which the first business entity is engaged, and (c) sending to the search engine, a second query that includes the bounding box and the indicator of the industry in which the first business entity is engaged, where the search engine returns coordinates of a second business entity located within the geographic area. | 09-08-2011 |
