Patent ID: 8412563

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for analyzing investment in time and resources in reviewing potential fraud activities, comprising acts of: (a) storing historical data in a database, the historical data comprising a first plurality of potential fraud items having a first type and a second plurality of potential fraud items having a second type, each of the first and second plurality of potential data items having a fraud determination and an associated monetary value, wherein the associated monetary value of each potential fraud item having a positive fraud determination is a function of savings in preventing a fraud event and a related cost of investigation; (b) assigning a relative score to each of the potential fraud items within the first and second plurality of fraud items; (c) calculating, using at least one processor, a cumulative monetary value for each relative score, the cumulative monetary value being the summation of associated monetary values for all potential fraud items having relative scores up to and including the relative score; and (d) determining a maximum cumulative monetary value and corresponding relative score.