Patent Application

App. No. 11/892,581

Abstract

Claims (42)

1 . A method for processing input addresses comprising:

a) receiving input addresses;

b) address resolving one or more of the received input addresses using an address resolver, wherein the address resolver comprises one or more address resolution elements for rendering an address capable of certification, and wherein at least one of said resolution elements is not approved by a postal authority for certification; and

c) selection processing the address resolved, received input addresses using a selection processor, wherein the selection processor comprises a certifier approved by a postal authority for certification.

2 . The method of claim 1 further comprising:

a) verifying the selection processed, address resolved, received input addresses using a verifier; and

b) outputting all verified, selection processed, address resolved, received, input addresses.

3 . The method of claim 1 wherein the address resolver includes one or more of: a history matcher, a name/address checker, a street name transposer and an expanded searcher.

4 . The method of claim 1 wherein the input addresses consist only of addresses that have failed certification, or have failed verification, or have failed certification and failed verification.

5 . The method of claim 1 wherein the address resolver first uses a history matcher, and outputs any history matched result.

6 . The method of claim 5 wherein the address resolver, upon a failure by the history matcher, further uses a name/address checker or an expanded searcher.

7 . The method of claim 1 wherein the address resolver further comprises a street name transposer.

8 . The method of claim 1 wherein the address resolver and the selection processor interact serially until an address resolved address meeting a predetermined confidence level is found, or until every address resolution element in the address resolver has been used.

9 . The method of claim 1 wherein the address resolver and the selection processor interact in parallel, and the selection processor selects the address resolved address with the highest confidence level that at least meets a predetermined confidence level.

10 . The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of outputting all failed verified, received, input addresses to a point resolver.

11 . A method for processing input addresses comprising:

a) receiving input addresses;

b) point resolving the received input addresses using a point resolver, wherein the point resolver comprises one or more point resolution elements for rendering an address capable of verification, and wherein at least one of said point resolution elements is not approved by a postal authority for verification;

c) verifying the point resolved, received, input addresses using a verifier approved by a postal authority for verification; and

d) outputting all verified, point resolved, received, input addresses.

12 . The method of claim 11 wherein the point resolver comprises one or more of: a history matcher, a primary number transposer, and a discrepancy fixer.

13 . The method of claim 12 wherein the point resolver first uses the history matcher, and outputs any history matched result.

14 . The method of claim 12 wherein the point resolver, upon a failure by the history matcher, uses the primary number transposer.

15 . The method of claim 14 wherein the primary number transposer utilizes a range from a certifier to screen transposition results before sending screened transposition results to a verifier.

16 . The method of claim 15 wherein the point resolver further comprises a secondary number transposer.

17 . The method of claim 11 further comprising the step of outputting at least some failed verified, received, input addresses to an address resolver.

18 . A method for resolving address data comprising the steps of:

a) receiving address data input not meeting one or more postal authority standards;

b) processing the address data input using one or more resources, said resources including at least:

i) a first data source comprising address data not approved by a postal authority;

ii) a second data source comprising address data approved by a postal authority; and

iii) one or more software processing modules for processing the first and second data source, said first data source being usable by at least one of the software processing modules in association with the address data input for rendering address data output capable of meeting postal authority standards, said second data source being usable by at least one of the software processing modules for determining whether or not the address data output is sufficient to meet postal authority standards; and

c) outputting the address data output determined to be sufficient to meet postal authority standards.

19 . The method of claim 18 wherein the one or more software processing modules includes one or more of a history matcher, a name/address checker, a street name transposer, an expanded searcher, a selection processor, a primary number transposer, a secondary number transposer and a discrepancy fixer.

20 . The method of claim 18 wherein the one or more software processing modules further includes one or more of a certifier and a verifier.

21 . A method for resolving address quality processing errors comprising the steps of:

a) receiving an initial address;

b) determining that a specific numeric portion of an address element of the received initial address is within a certifiable range in accordance with certification data from a postal mailing authority;

c) determining that the initial address does not correspond to a verified delivery point address according to verification data from the postal mailing authority;

d) performing transposition logic processing on the numeric portion, the transposition logic being performed on the basis of the certifiable range in order to generate at least an output address; and

e) determining whether the output address corresponds to a verified delivery point address.

22 . The method of claim 21 wherein the numeric portion of the address is at least one or more of a primary address number, a suite number or an apartment number.

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