Patent ID: 8332250

Claim:
A system for determining print revenue behavior for an account, the system comprising: a computing device; and a computer-readable storage medium in communication with the computing device, wherein the computer-readable storage medium comprises one or more programming instructions for: determining a print revenue for an account for each of a plurality of time periods, wherein the print revenue comprises a trend classified as at least one of flat, linear, and autoregressive, selecting a best fit model from a plurality of models based on the print revenue for the account for the plurality of time periods such that the best fit model corresponds to the print revenue trend, wherein selecting a best fit model comprises: identifying a plurality of models, wherein each model describes a format for an associated equation, wherein the format comprises one or more coefficients, for each equation, determining a maximum likelihood estimate for each of the one or more coefficients, wherein the maximum likelihood estimates cause the equation to approximate the print revenues for the plurality of time periods, and selecting the model from the plurality of models having the equation with the maximum likelihood estimates that most closely approximates the print revenues for the plurality of time periods, wherein selecting the model from the plurality of models comprises: determining a value for Akaike's Information Criterion for each model, and selecting the model having the smallest Akaike's Information Criterion value, and determining a risk level associated with the account based on at least the best fit model, wherein the risk level is based on a difference between the best fit model and the print revenue for the account for each of the plurality of time periods.