Patent ID: 8671102

Claim:
A computer-implemented method, by a computer having a computer processor and a storage medium, of identifying emerging risks of one or more agents causing one or more harms to a particular system, the method comprising: accessing, via a computer network, an electronic document database comprising document data; inputting a set of criteria specified by a user, wherein inputting a set of criteria comprises inputting a first selected set having a plurality of agents and inputting a second selected set having a plurality of harms to a particular system; extracting a subset of the document data from the electronic document database that satisfies the set of criteria; generating, with the computer processor, an array based on the subset of document data extracted from the electronic document database, the array containing agent-harm coincidences from the extracted subset of the document data; assessing, with the computer processor, statistical significance of each agent-harm coincidence of the array relative to other agent-harm coincidences in the array; compiling, with the computer processor, risk data of one or more agents of the plurality of agents of the first selected set causing one or more harms of the plurality of harms of the second selected set, the risk data based on the statistical significances of the agent-harm coincidences in the array; and outputting the risk data; wherein the risk data is based on the statistical significances of the agent-harm coincidences in the array that meet or exceed a particular threshold; and wherein the particular threshold is determined by the statistical significances of the array.