Abstract
Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors:“A server charged with monitoring and verifying transactions e xpends immense processing and networkbandwidth resources. Hundreds of thousands of transactions can be made in a single day, each transactioncarrying data tha t must be monitored and verified by the server. One way in which a transaction i s verifiedis through cross checking transaction data generated during the trans action against a record documentingthe completion of the transaction. As record s may come from many different sources or exist in manydifferent forms, it is c hallenging not only to retrieve records in an efficient way but also to accurate lymatch them to a corresponding transaction.”