Patent ID: 8682684

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving, by a processor, information from a database, the information regarding a first group of entities that have reported unclaimed property during at least one prior reporting period; identifying, by the processor, candidate entities that are considered to have a reporting obligation, the identifying of the candidate entities is based upon a predefined criteria; comparing, by the processor, a common representation of each of the candidate entities with the information regarding the first group of entities; identifying, by the processor and based on the comparing, any of the candidate entities that has not previously reported unclaimed property as a potential non-reporter entity; identifying, by the processor, any of the candidate entities that has previously reported unclaimed property as previously reported candidate entities; evaluating, by the processor, previous reports of unclaimed property, the previous reports are associated with the previously reported candidate entities, to determine whether the previous reports satisfy predetermined conditions, the predetermined conditions are different than the predefined criteria; when at least one of the previous reports do not satisfy the predetermined conditions, identifying by the processor at least one potential under-reporter entity from the previously reported candidate entities; associating, by the processor, negative reports of unclaimed property during the at least one prior reporting period with at least one respective candidate entity of the candidate entities; and outputting, by the processor, information regarding at least one of the candidate entities.