Patent ID: 7370044

Claim:
A method for updating a customer file having a plurality of record entries, comprising: receiving raw data corresponding to at least one event generating entity; processing the raw data and generating at least one processed record entry; storing a plurality of processed record entries in a universe database, each record entry being associated with a unique universe identifier (“UUID”); accessing content of a customer file; comparing the content of the customer file with the content of the universe database; generating a matched customer file and a non-matched customer file; assigning a unique customer number (“UCID”) for each record entry contained in the matched customer file and the non-matched customer file, wherein the UCID is different from the UUID, and the UCID is distributed to a single customer and the UUID is not distributed to the customer; associating each UCID with a corresponding UUID via a conversion table; and updating a portion of at least one record entry in the matched customer file with information contained in the processed record entry associated with the UUID corresponding to the UCID associated with the at least one record entry.