Patent ID: 8060502

Claim:
A method for generating data quality indicators for relationships, wherein relationships are established between a customer and a business, in a database, comprising: comparing, by a computer based system for generating the data quality indicators for the relationships, for each relationship in a set of relationships, data associated with the respective relationship and corresponding data obtained from an industry database to generate a match confidence code for each relationship in the set of relationships, wherein the set of relationships includes multiple relationships obtained from a database; determining, by the computer based system, a link confidence code for the customer, wherein the link confidence code comprises an indication of the quality of the linking between the customer and the set of relationships based on the generated match confidence code for each relationship in the set of relationships and internal information associated with each relationship in the set of relationships, wherein the link confidence code is distinct from the match confidence code; and providing, by the computer based system, at least one of the link confidence code for the customer and the match confidence code for each relationship in the set of relationships linked to the customer.