What is the difference between Factory and Strategy patterns?

Question

Can any one explain the difference between factory and strategy patterns?

For me both are looking same other than an extra factory class (which create an object of

Answer 1

Just to add to what tvanfosson said, a lot of the patterns look the same as far as implementation. That is, a lot have you create an interface where perhaps there wasn't one before in your code, and then create a bunch of implementations of that interface. The difference is in their purpose and how they are used.