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

Claim 14:
15. A non-transitory computer storage having stored thereon a computer program, the computer program including executable instructions that instruct a computer system to at least:
access 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;
identify 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;
access 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;
analyze the first device activity data; and
based at least in part on the analysis of the first device activity data, generate a fraud score for the first tax return data and request authentication of the consumer computing device associated with the first consumer.