Richard H Howe

US Patent:

7363308, Apr 22, 2008

Filed:

Dec 27, 2001

Appl. No.:

10/032843

Inventors:

Craig Dillon - San Diego CA, US
Richard Howe - San Diego CA, US
Nicolaas A. van Goor - Shoreview MN, US
Sachin Sarnobat - San Diego CA, US
Russell W. Anderson - Oceanside CA, US
Jason Lenderman - Los Angeles CA, US
Gordon Cameron - Brookhaven PA, US

Assignee:

Fair Isaac Corporation - Minneapolis MN

International Classification:

G06F 7/00

US Classification:

707101

Abstract:

A computerized system for augmenting data from a source database with data from a reference database to generate an augmented database that can be used for predictive modeling is disclosed. The present invention includes a method for using the Internet to obtain information, including, reading a data record stored in a field of data, searching a database for information describing the data record, condensing the information describing the data record into a value description, associating the value description with the data record, and augmenting the field of data with the value description associated with the data. The present invention also includes a computerized system for augmenting data from a source database with data from a reference database to generate an augmented database that can be used for predictive modeling and data mining to conduct searches of data in the augmented database.