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Cite as: [2022] UKIntelP o39022
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Patent decision
- BL number
- O/390/22
- Concerning rights in
- GB2101742.1
- Hearing Officer
- Mr B Micklewright
- Decision date
- 9 May 2022
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Provisions discussed
- Patents Act 1977 sections 1(1)(d), 1(2)
- Keywords
- Excluded fields (refused)
- Related Decisions
- None
Summary
The invention related to performing active learning of large-scale entity resolution using a two-level cache hierarchy comprising distributed memory cache and distributed disk cache for storing link vector tables for intermediate results. The hearing officer found that the claimed invention lay solely in the excluded field of a program for a computer as such and therefore refused the application.
Full decisionO/390/22 
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