Patent ID: 11941635
Assignee: EXPERIAN INFORMATION SOLUTIONS, INC.
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. A computer-implemented method performed by one or more computer processors comprising:
accessing, via a server system, a first tax return data from a remote tax agency server via a network interface, the network interface configured to send and receive secure, encrypted electronic messages with the remote tax agency server, the remote tax agency server comprising a first electronic data store configured to store a plurality of tax return data associated with a plurality of consumers and at least one tax agency, the first tax return data associated with a first tax return associated with a first consumer of the plurality of consumers and comprising one or more consumer attributes associated with the first consumer;
identifying, via a server system, the first tax return as a flagged tax return based at least in part on the one or more consumer attributes associated with the first consumer;
accessing, via a server system, a first device activity data from a second electronic data store, the first device activity data associated with a consumer computing device associated with the first consumer, the first device activity data indicative of at least one of: whether the consumer computing device has been previously associated with fraudulent activities, a degree of risk associated with the fraudulent activities, or whether the consumer computing device is in a list of devices that are banned from conducting a tax return filing;
analyzing, via a server system, the first device activity data; and
based at least in part on the analysis of the first device activity data, generating, via a server system, a fraud score for the first tax return data and generating an electronic authentication instruction to launch an authentication execution script to conduct authentication of the consumer computing device associated with the first consumer.