Patent ID: 8762379
Filing Date: 2014-06-24
Classification: G06F,G06K,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method of detecting a pattern of one of a fraudulent activity and a criminal activity by recording an object in a transaction database, the object comprising at least two suspicious transactions in a transaction database, the transaction database being coupled to processor search manager apparatus, the processor search manager apparatus comprising a processor and memory, the memory coupled to the transaction database, the method comprising: testing by said processor of hypotheses representing a possible organizational structure of the criminal or fraudulent activity comprising at least one offender, said transaction database comprising one of a similarity-based and a nearest neighbor search; and applying at least one model to results returned from the transaction database in response to a query, the query requesting objects comprising suspicious transaction data in said transaction database most similar to a target object comprising data of a transaction, the queried transaction objects, responsive to the query, being most similar to each other, and applying multivariate statistical analysis and clustering to determine tree-structured index for indexing and searching the transaction database to retrieve the objects most similar to the target objects; the testing including testing at least one hypothesis of a possible organizational structure and detecting the pattern of one of the fraudulent activity and the criminal activity; the pattern detection comprising a prediction of attributes including two of gender, marital status, occupation and age of an offender of the suspicious transaction and member of the criminal or fraudulent organizational structure.