METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMICALLY DETECTING ILLEGAL ACTIVITY

• US 20120143649A1
• Filed: 12/01/2010
• Published: 06/07/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/01/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: 9133 1280 Quebec Incorporated
• Original Assignee: 9133 1280 Quebec Incorporated
• Inventors: AUBERTIN, Manon
• Application Number:
  US12/957,825
• Publication Number:
  US 20120143649A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/7.28
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0635 Risk analysis of enterprise or organisation activities
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/4016 involving fraud or risk level assessment in transaction processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/02 Banking, e.g. interest calculation or account maintenance credit or loans G06Q40/03
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 19/207 Surveillance aspects at ATMs
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 3/003 Anti-theft control theft alarms G08B13/00
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 31/00 Predictive alarm systems characterised by extrapolation or other computation using updated historic data

Abstract

The present relates to a method and system for dynamically detecting illegal activity. The method and system collect new information, where the new information comprises at least an identity of an entity and a type of information. For each new information, the method and system determine whether there is at least one relation between the new information and at least one previous information stored in a storage module, and if there is at least one relation, a logical link is added between the new information and the at least one of the previous information with which there is the at least one relation. The method and system further verify whether the new information with the at least one previous information sharing the logical link correspond to at least one of a plurality of stored surveillance patterns, and if the new information with the at least one previous information sharing the logical link correspond to at least one of the plurality of stored surveillance patterns, a first type of alert is generated for the new information. The method and system further assign a risk factor to the new information, and verify whether the assigned risk factor is above a predetermined threshold, and if the assigned risk factor is above the predetermined threshold, generate a second type of alert. The method and system further integrate the new information in the storage module, and storing with the new information the logical link and the assigned risk factor.

Claims

1. A method for dynamically detecting illegal activity, the method comprising:

collecting new information, each new information comprising at least an identity of an entity and a type of information;

for each new information;

determining whether there is at least one relation between the new information and at least one previous information stored in a storage module, and if there is at least one relation, adding a logical link between the new information and the at least one of the previous information with which there is the at least one relation;

verifying whether the new information with the at least one previous information sharing the logical link correspond to at least one of a plurality of stored surveillance patterns, and if the new information with the at least one previous information sharing the logical link correspond to at least one of the plurality of stored surveillance patterns, generating a first type of alert for the new information;

assigning a risk factor to each new information, the risk factor being determined based on one or several of the following;

the identity of the entity, the type of information, an amount or the at least one logical link;

verifying whether the assigned risk factor for the new information is above a predetermined threshold, and if the assigned risk factor is above the predetermined threshold, generating a second type of alert for the new information; and

integrating the new information in the storage module, and storing with the new information the logical link and the assigned risk factor.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein collecting the new information is performed by electronic transfer of event/transaction activity from one or several of the following:

a store, a company, a financial institution, a real estate agent, an insurance company, an art dealer, a broking company, and a government agency, or of event information from any legal or moral entity.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein collecting the new information further comprises searching Internet for information on at least one of the following:

the entity, and context of the transaction activity.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the transaction activity comprises one of the following:

a financial transaction, a real estate transaction, an insurance transaction, a broking transaction, a precious stone transaction, an expensive acquisition, an art transaction, and an automobile transaction or any other type of transaction consisting of a transfer or an exchange of goods, services or funds.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the identity of the entity comprises one or several of the following:

a personal name, a company name, a company number, a personal identification number, and an alias.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising automatic generation of a regulatory declaration for the new information when the first second and/or third type of alert is generated.

7. The method of claim 2, wherein each surveillance pattern comprises at least one of a plurality of the following:

an amount for the transaction activity, a sequence of transaction activities over time, a sequence of transaction activities over jurisdictions, a sequence of transaction activities over involved parties.

8. A system for dynamically detecting illegal activity, the system comprising:

a communication module for collecting new information, each new information comprising at least an identity of an entity and a type of information;

a storage module for storing previous information, the new information, logical links, and surveillance patterns;

an analysis module for analyzing for each new information;

whether there is at least one relation between the new information and at least one previous information stored in the storage module, and if there is at least one relation, adding a logical link between the new information and the at least one of the previous information with which there is the at least one relation;

a risk factor to be assigned to each new information, the risk factor being determined based on one or several of the following;

the identity of the entity, the type of information, and the at least one logical link;

whether the new information with the at least one previous information sharing the logical link correspond to at least one of the surveillance patterns, and if the new information with the at least one previous information sharing the logical link correspond to at least one of the surveillance patterns, generating by means of the communication module a first type of alert for the new information; and

whether the assigned risk factor for the new information is above a predetermined threshold, and if the assigned risk factor is above the predetermined threshold, generating by means of the communication module a second type of alert for the new information; and

an integration module for integrating the new information, the logical link and the assigned risk in the storage module.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the communication module collects the new information by electronic transfer of transaction activity from one or several of the following:

a store, a company, a financial institution, a real estate agent, an insurance company, an art dealer, a broking company, and a government agency.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the communication module further searches Internet for information on at least one of the following:

the entity, and context of the transaction activity.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the new information relates to one of the following:

a financial transaction, a real estate transaction, an insurance transaction, a broking transaction, a precious stone transaction, an expensive acquisition, an art transaction, an automobile transaction, and an exchange or transfer of goods, services or funds.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein the identity of the entity comprises one or several of the following:

a personal name, a company name, a company number, a personal identification number, and an alias.

13. The system of claim 8, wherein the analysis module further analyses for each new information whether the new information with the at least one previous information sharing the logical link correspond to at least one subset of at least one stored surveillance pattern, and if the new information with the at least one previous information sharing the logical link correspond to at least one subset of at least one stored surveillance pattern, generating by means of the communication module a third type of alert for the new information.

14. The system of claim 8, further comprising report generation module for automatically generating a regulatory declaration for the new information when the first, second and/or third type of alert is generated.

15. The system of claim 8, wherein each surveillance pattern comprises at least one of a plurality of the following:

an amount for the transaction activity, a sequence of transaction activities over time, a sequence of transaction activities over jurisdictions, a sequence of transaction activities over involved