Patent ID: 8316453

Claim:
A system comprising: a memory device having stored therein information regarding a plurality of entitlement-eligible entities and information regarding one or more entitlements currently associated with each entitlement-eligible entity; and a processing device in communication with the memory device, wherein the processing device: determines different communities of entitlement-eligible entities based on a review of the one or more entitlements currently associated with at least some of the entitlement-eligible entities, wherein determining the different communities comprises: selecting a plurality of combinations of two entitlement-eligible entities from the plurality of entitlement-eligible entities; determining for each of the selected plurality of combinations of two entitlement-eligible entities a correlation number, wherein the correlation number indicates how well the entitlements associated with one entitlement-eligible entity of a combination of two entitlement-eligible entities correlate to the entitlements associated with the other entitlement-eligible entity of the combination of two entitlement-eligible entities, wherein the correlation number for the combination of two entitlement-eligible entities is computed as a function of a number of entitlements that the two entitlement-eligible entities have in common and a number of entitlements that the two entitlement-eligible entities do not have in common; determines a community of entitlement-eligible entities based on the correlation number for the combination of two entitlement-eligible entities selected from the plurality of entitlement eligible-entities; selects a community of entitlement-eligible entities from the different communities; calculates a likelihood ratio for at least one of the entitlements currently associated with one or more entitlement-eligible entities within the selected community, wherein the likelihood ratio indicates whether the at least one of the entitlements requires validation or not; and determines based on the likelihood ratio that the entitlement is uncommon if the likelihood ratio is below an uncommon entitlement threshold or the entitlement is normal if the likelihood ratio is equal to or above the uncommon entitlement threshold, wherein an uncommon entitlement is an entitlement requiring validation, and wherein a normal entitlement is an entitlement that does not require validation.