Patent ID: 8639616

Claim:
A method comprising receiving, from a credit-extending entity, a request for information regarding business associations of an individual; determining a unique personal identification number of the individual; providing a data structure having a plurality of personal identification numbers and associations between respective personal identification numbers and businesses, locating, by a computing system having one or more hardware processors, occurrences of the personal identification number in the data structure; for each occurrence of the personal identification number, extracting, by the computing system, business information regarding the business associated with the personal identification number; determining, by the computing system, a confidence score for each business associated with the personal identification number, wherein each confidence score is determined based on identities of one or more sources of the business information, a reliability associated with each of the one or more sources, or a quantity of the one or more sources, the business information including information indicating relationship between the individual and the business, the confidence scores indicating respective levels of confidence that the individual was and/or is a principal of businesses; determining, by the computing system, one or more of the businesses associated with the personal identification number having confidence scores above a threshold; and generating a user interface including business information regarding the determined one or more businesses, the user interface including indicators of the confidence scores for respective of the one or more businesses; and providing the user interface to the credit-extending entity.