Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Decreasing duplicates and loops in an activity record
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Application No.: US14518790Application Date: 2014-10-20
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Publication No.: US10366055B2Publication Date: 2019-07-30
- Inventor: Robert M. Dolin , Oludare Victor Obasanjo , Douglas R. Pearce , Seung-Hae Park , Gyorgy K. Schadt , Robert W. Piper , Kerstin Weinberg
- Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
- Applicant Address: US WA Redmond
- Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Redmond
- Agency: International IP Law Group, PLLC
- Main IPC: G06Q10/10
- IPC: G06Q10/10 ; G06Q50/00 ; H04L29/08 ; G06F16/174 ; G06F16/9535

Abstract:
The claimed subject matter decreases duplicate entries and loops in an activity record. An exemplary method comprises analyzing a new entry from a user to determine an originating service and a type of activity and extracting an identifying portion of the new entry. The identifying portion includes a predetermined number of characters at a beginning of the entry. Additionally, the predetermined number of characters is based on a likelihood of duplicates in the activity record. The identifying portion is compared to a list of prior entries from the user, and an exclusion action is performed, if the new entry matches one in the list of prior entries. The exclusion action may be to hide the new entry, to delete the new entry, or to collapse the new entry into a matching prior entry.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150058303A1 DECREASING DUPLICATES AND LOOPS IN AN ACTIVITY RECORD Public/Granted day:2015-02-26
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