Patent Document ID: 10037533
Application ID: 15811541

Base Claim:
1. A computerized merchant fraud screening system, comprising: a bus; a processing unit coupled with the bus; a network interface coupled with the bus; a system memory coupled with the bus and storing instructions configured to instruct the processing unit and the network interface to: retrieve a list of known fraudulent merchants; retrieve a plurality of historic cryptocurrency transactions; generate, an electronic fingerprint for each fraudulent merchant of the known fraudulent merchants, based on one or more related transactions associated with the fraudulent merchant in the plurality of historic cryptocurrency transactions; identify relationships between the known fraudulent merchants based on electronic fingerprints associated with the known fraudulent merchants; generate data representing a first graph based on the identified relationships; receive a set of investigation information about a first merchant, the investigation information comprising an identification of the first merchant and one or more proposed cryptocurrency transactions associated with the first merchant; generate a first merchant electronic fingerprint for the first merchant based on the set of investigation information; perform, using a query engine and based on the first merchant electronic fingerprint, a first query against the data representing the first graph to identify a first plurality of relationships of the first merchant to one or more of the known fraudulent merchants; determine that a first count of the identified first plurality of relationships of the first merchant to one or more of the known fraudulent merchants is above a first threshold; perform, using the query engine, a second query against the data representing the first graph to identify a second plurality of relationships of the first merchant to one or more of the known fraudulent merchants in the data representing the first graph; and reject, by the computerized merchant fraud screening system, the one or more proposed cryptocurrency transactions in response to determining that a second count of the identified second plurality of relationships of the first merchant is above a second threshold.

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Claim 6:
6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the instructions causing the processing unit and the network interface to perform the first query against the data representing the first graph to identify the first plurality of relationships of the first merchant to one or more of the known fraudulent merchants are further configured to extract second data representing at least one condensed information graphlet from the first graph in response to performing the first query, wherein the first plurality of relationships are identified from the second data representing the graphlet.