Techniques for managing fraud information

• US 7,802,722 B1
• Filed: 12/31/2004
• Issued: 09/28/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Teradata US, Inc. (Teradata Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Teradata US, Inc. (Teradata Corporation)
• Inventors: Brooks, Gordon D., Cereghini, Paul, Papierniak, Karen, Hsiao, Mike Chiufang, Ryan, Thomas K., Wasserman, Brian J., Draper, Linette, Hood, George R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee; Seung H
• Application Number:
  US11/027,792
• Time in Patent Office: 2,097 Days
• Field of Search: 235/375, 235/376, 235/380, 235/382, 235/487, 705/39, 705/44, 707/9
• US Class Current: 235/382
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance

Abstract

Techniques are presented for managing fraud information. Metadata defines user profiles, security levels, fraud cases, and presentation information. One or more queries or reports are processed against disparate data store tables and the results are aggregated into a repository. The repository is also defined by the metadata. Furthermore, operations associated with sharing, viewing, and accessing the results from the repository is defined and controlled by the metadata. In an embodiment, portions of the metadata may be viewed and navigated in a hierarchical and graphical formatted presentation.

Claims

1. A metadata data structure implemented in a computer-readable medium for defining a fraud case, the metadata structure executed computer-implemented services that are processed by a computer and the metadata data structure includes:

user information for a fraud investigator that is designated as a user;

repository information; and

presentation information, wherein the user information includes authentication and security levels associated with the fraud investigator and the authentication information includes the identity of the fraud investigator and an authentication technique for authenticating the fraud investigator, and wherein the user information includes preferences and profiles defined by the user and contact information associated with the user, the repository information includes schemas for tables that house query results and report results, and schemas for templates accessed by the fraud investigator for fraud cases, the repository information also identifying sources of data information and specific queries associated with fraud patterns for the fraud cases, and wherein the presentation information defines customized views for and interfaces associated with the fraud investigator and the fraud cases, wherein the presentation information permits data from several different data sources or tables to be presented in a single generic data store table as the customized views for the fraud investigator.

2. The metadata data structure of claim 1 further comprising, fraud case definitions associated with the fraud investigator and each fraud case, wherein each fraud case definition is associated with one or more queries, and wherein the queries when executed are processed against two or more disparate data stores to look for predefined patterns associated with fraud.

3. The metadata data structure of claim 1, wherein the security levels associated with the repository information are modifiable by the fraud investigator to permit other fraud investigators to view selective portions of the repository information.

4. The metadata data structure of claim 1 further comprising, library information that permits definitional information of the repository information and presentation information to be transferred or to be shared with other instances of the metadata data structures.

5. The metadata data structure of claim 4, wherein the library information permits selective portions of the metadata data structure to be copied to a new and different instances of the metadata data structure.

6. The metadata data structure of claim 1 further comprising, scheduling and control information associated with queries and reports of the fraud investigator and the fraud cases.