Patent ID: 9070136
Filing Date: 2015-06-30
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method executed at least in part in a computing device for providing cloud based skip tracing, the method comprising: providing a cloud based service enabling data interchange with a plurality of vendors providing skip tracing services; providing a client user interface to clients of the cloud based service wherein the client user interface provides for mapping fields of a client file to a standard input file layout; providing an administrator user interface to administrators of the cloud based service wherein the administrator user interface provides for: receiving at the cloud based service and from a user a file of records for skip tracing; applying a waterfall process to the records using the computing device wherein the waterfall process includes at least a subset of the plurality of vendors, wherein the waterfall process applies waterfall logic to manage and sequence electronic data interchange with the vendors; returning to the user a results file containing skip tracing results corresponding to the records; selecting the waterfall process is based on an analytical model; wherein the selecting the waterfall process is based on an analytical model; and wherein the analytical model is derived from an analysis component analyzing a plurality of return files from users, each of the return files providing information identifying contacts made with customers identified in the records, the analytical model including conditional statements, and being based on a statistical model that determines a path of the file of records through the skip tracing.