Patent ID: 7720822
Filing Date: 2010-05-18
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for improving quality of a data processing operation in a plurality of documents, the method comprising the steps of: assigning a relative operational risk to each of at least two fields in the plurality of documents, the relative operational risk for a given field based on the operational impact of data processing errors in that field relative to the operational impact of data processing errors in other fields; determining a frequency of errors for each of the fields by sampling a set of documents from among the plurality of documents; determining an error rate for each of the fields, the error rate for a field based on the relative operational risk for that field and the frequency of errors for that field; dynamically identifying a set of critical fields in the plurality of documents based on which fields have higher error rates; double typing data in the fields, where the double typing is focused on the critical fields to generate two different versions for each critical field; comparing the two versions for each critical field to check for discrepancies; and correcting the discrepancies to correct the data in the critical fields.