Patent ID: 8108224

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