Patent ID: 9372857
Filing Date: 2016-06-21
CPC Classification: G06F,G06Q

Claim Text:
1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a population data storage unit configured to store a population comprising a plurality of transactions conducted in a business process; a sample extracting unit configured to sample the population thereby extracting samples from the population, extracted samples corresponding to a subset of the plurality of transactions; a trail information memory configured to store information about a trail related to each sample of the extracted samples, the trail corresponding to a document which verifies a fact or details of the extracted samples; a trail acquisition instructing unit configured to provide an instruction to acquire the trail for each sample of the extracted samples; a trail accepting unit configured to accept the acquired trail; and a trail determining unit configured to determine whether the accepted trail is valid or invalid in accordance with the information stored in the trail information memory for each accepted trail, wherein, if the trail determining unit determines that the accepted trail is invalid, the trail acquisition instructing unit is configured to provide an instruction to re-acquire a trail related to the sample.