Patent ID: 7693810

Claim:
A computer-based method for generating alerts to a behavior as represented in data, the method comprising: receiving financial data from at least one source, wherein the received financial data comprises data representative of a plurality of transactions and a plurality of entities, wherein the plurality of transactions and the plurality of entities are not predetermined to be related; identifying a behavior of interest that comprises one or more sequence detection requirements; determining, by a computing device, whether one or more groups of the transactions and the entities collectively satisfy at least one of the sequence detection requirements; if so, assigning a corresponding priority to each group by, for each group: determining a match score value associated with the group, and determining the priority for the group by one or more of the following: summing the match score and a first value associated with the behavior of interest, summing the match score and a second value, wherein the second value is based on a graduated scale, and summing the match score and a third value, wherein the third value is based on one or more prior occurrences of the behavior of interest within a period of time; and generating an alert comprising one or more of the groups and the corresponding priority.