Ranking and tracking suspicious procurement entities

US10467631B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Amit Dhurandhar · Yorktown Heights, US
• Markus Ettl · Ossining, US
• Bruce C. Graves · Portage, US
• Gopikrishna Maniachari · Ossining, US
• Anthony T. Mazzatti · Johnson City, US
• Rajesh Kumar Ravi · Yorktown Heights, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 8, 2016
• Grant date: Nov 5, 2019
• Expiry date: Nov 22, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07G3/00
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

An apparatus, method and computer program product for identifying fraud in transaction data. The method includes: receiving invoice data comprising a vendor, a requestor and events, receiving public data and private data sources, computing a vendor risk score using the public and private data sources matching the vendor of the invoice data, computing a requestor risk score using the public data sources and the private data sources matching the requestor of the invoice data, computing an active invoice score using the vendor risk score and the requestor risk score and when the active invoice score is greater than a predetermined amount, blocking the invoice data. In one embodiment, computing a vendor risk score comprises obtaining a weight and a confidence for the event, calculating an event vendor risk score using the weight times the confidence and combining the event vendor risk scores for all of the events.