Near-Duplicate DetectionFamily Canonical

Method for Identifying Near Duplicate Pages in a Hyperlinked Database

US 6,138,113
Andrei Broder, Monika Henzinger, Jeff Dean, others
Compaq Computer Corp
Granted October 24, 2000
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Executive Summary

The foundational near-duplicate-page detection patent. Henzinger is co-inventor with Jeff Dean. Cross-listed with Dean's canonical article.

Patent Family

Continuations and divisional patents in the same invention family. They share the technical core but were filed at different times with refined claims.

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