Patent ID: 8266025

Claim:
storing, by a server, one or more values of historical data wherein the historical data comprises at least one measurement of an investment; receiving, by the server, via a computer network, financial input data for the investment from one or more data processing systems; determining, by the server, a measurement for the investment based on the financial input data; calculating, by the server, information content of the financial input data using continuous, discrete and a combination of continuous and discrete modes of the input data; determining, by the server, a change in the information content of the financial input data as compared to information content based on the historical data; determining, by the server, a confidence level based on the change in the information content of the financial input data as compared to the information content based on the historical data; assessing, by the server, whether the change was caused by an error in the financial input data by categorizing the confidence level; and generating, by the server, a report based on the categorized confidence level.