Patent ID: 7406455

Claim:
A computerized method for indicating potential misclassification, consequent to the application of at least one first rule, of an incoming data item used by one or more application programs, the method comprising: retrieving a user preference profile; applying at least one first rule to the incoming data item and adding the incoming data item to a preexisting collection of one or more data items if the incoming data item follows the first rule; calculating statistics regarding the data items in the preexisting collection; applying one or more second rules to the calculated statistics to identify whether the incoming data item is an anomalous data item that is misclassified and has not properly been added to the preexisting collection despite satisfying the at least one first rule; flagging the incoming data item as an anomalous data item if the data item is identified as an anomalous data item; and indicating to at least one user, based on the retrieved user preference profile, that the preexisting collection contains at least one data item that has been identified as anomalous with regard to other data items in the preexisting collection.