Patent ID: 8082209
Filing Date: 2011-12-20
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method of processing financial transaction data of a payment program, the method comprising: receiving data relating to a set of financial transactions that have been authorized by a payment processing system in accordance with the payment program; determining if one or more of the authorized financial transactions will be subjected to further processing, wherein the further processing comprises operations of an analysis system on the received data and identifies authorized financial transactions that may comprise misuse or abuse of the payment program or may be out of compliance with transaction regulations of the payment program; wherein determining comprises wherein the audit module assigns a case number to the received flagged transaction in response to acceptance of the flagged transaction for further processing, and the audit module otherwise terminates processing of the flagged transaction; wherein the sampling is performed by a sampling module of the analysis system according to a selected sampling plan and a selected inspection level such that a financial transaction selected according to the sampling plan and inspection level is deemed a flagged transaction for further review.