Abstract: The features relate to artificial intelligence directed detection of user behavior based on complex analysis of user event data including language modeling to generate distributed representations of user behavior. Further features are described for reducing the amount of data needed to represent relationships between events such as transaction events received from card readers or point of sale systems. Machine learning features for dynamically determining an optimal set of attributes to use as the language model as well as for comparing current event data to historical event data are also included.

Abstract: One embodiment of a system for automatically generating code for attributes includes a credit bureau data that store stores credit bureau convention information and an attribute generation system that communicates with the credit data store to detect rules associated with respective credit bureaus.

Abstract: The systems and methods described herein allow consumers to lock or unlock their credit files at multiple credit bureaus in real-time or near real-time. The service may allow a consumer to provide identifying information, such as a personal identifier to lock or unlock credit files at a plurality of credit bureaus over a network. Upon receiving the personal identifier, the system may use the personal identifier to translate the identifier into a plurality of access codes for respective credit bureaus, for example by accessing a data structure, such as a database or table, that stores a personal identifier and access codes that are associated with a consumer. The system may then use the access codes to automatically initiate locking or unlocking of credit files for the consumer at the respective credit bureaus.

Abstract: Embodiments of an electronic fraud analysis platform system are disclosed which may be used to analyze tax returns for potential fraud. Analysis of tax return data using the tax return analysis platform computing systems and methods discussed herein may provide insight into whether a tax return may be fraudulent based on, for example, an initial screening component configured to filter tax returns which appear fraudulent due to missing or inaccurate information provided with the return; a device activity analysis component configured to identify whether a device used to submit a tax return or to provide further authentication information needed to complete processing of the return may have been used in other fraudulent activities; and a knowledge-based authentication component configured to identify potential fraudsters using dynamically generated questions for which fraudsters typically do not know the answers.

Abstract: Embodiments include a search and match computing system configured to: access, from a third party computing system, a query regarding at least one entity; determine if the query is a structured query or an unstructured query; process the query with at least one of an application programming interface configured to receive structured queries or a second application programming interface receive unstructured queries; initiate a search and match application configured to execute queries on at least one of: a relational data scheme or a non-relational data scheme; receive search results from the at least one of: the relational data scheme or the non-relational data scheme; and process the received search results to generate an output data packet for access by the third party computing system.

Abstract: Embodiments of a system and method are described for generating a finance attribute. In one embodiment, the systems and methods retrieve raw tradeline data from a plurality of credit bureaus, retrieve industry code data related to each of the plurality of credit bureaus, determine one or more tradeline leveling characteristics that meet at least one pre-determined threshold, and generate a finance attribute using the selected leveling characteristics.

Abstract: Embodiments include a method for providing tokens which includes: receiving from a user system an encrypted data packet including user credentials and a request for an authentication token to access protected resources; extracting the user's security information; transmitting a data packet to a security and access management system, where the data packet includes the user's security information and a request for user validation; receiving, from the security and access management system, user validation and additional data; generating a thin token and a fat token; storing the thin token in association with the fat token; transmitting the thin token to the user system; receiving, from the user system, a request to access protected resources from a protected resource system, the request including the thin token; validating the received thin token; accessing the fat token associated with the thin token; and transmitting the fat token to the protected resource system.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention assist in the development, management, and deployment of aggregated data attributes for multiple data sources. One embodiment provides a development interface that allows for elements of attributes, including filters, to be moved into a coding area in which an attribute or an attribute element is being edited. In another embodiment, the user interface presents data fields to assist in the development of filters for multiple data sources with divergent formats. The application further provides a validation interface through which users can validate attributes and trace the results returned by various elements referenced by the attributes under validation. Another embodiment provides a system for managing attributes and deploying them to various systems by creating a deployment file that is used by an attribute calculation system. In one embodiment, the attribute calculation system is a scalable system that dynamically calculates attributes for multiple data sources.

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for generating alerts in association with a request for credit data or an update to credit data. For example, information identifying an individual may be received from a credit bureau when an individual applies for a product or service from a requesting entity. The requesting entity may be a product or service provider that requests credit data of potential purchasers of its products. An electronic notification may then be sent in association with an event object generated by a notification system that is broadcast for delivery to one or more other systems, where the event object may be broadcast substantially in real time, such as via an enterprise server bus, relative to the requesting entity's initial request.

Abstract: Embodiments of a system may comprise databases and a processor that receives a first filter item and a database filter item, generates a first database based on the first filter item, integrate data from the first database into the user database to create an updated plurality of user records, generate a second database based on a selected set of records, in the updated plurality of user records, corresponding to the database filter item, determine metrics that correspond to the second database, generate a model to segregate the second database using the metrics, receive criteria, compare the segregated second database with the criteria to remove records that do not meet the criteria, cause a subsequent update to the updated second database to integrate data from the event database to create an updated diminished second database, and generate a notification including information included in the updated diminished second database.

Abstract: Features for providing a secure method of symmetric encryption for private smart contacts among multiple parties in a private peer-to-peer network. The features include a master key representing a unique blockchain ledger. The master key may be shared among multiple participants in a private peer-to-peer network. Sharing of the master key may include communicating the master key in an encrypted message (e.g., email) using public key infrastructure (PKI). In some implementations, more complex distribution features may be includes such as quantum entanglement. The features support instantiation of a smart contract using a specific master key. The request may be submitted as an entry to the ledger with appropriate metadata and/or payload information for identifying and processing the request.

Abstract: Embodiments of system are disclosed in which selection strategies for a direct marketing campaign that identify consumers from a credit bureau or other consumer database can be planned, tested, and/or refined on a stable subset of the credit database. In some embodiments, once refined, consumer selection criteria may be used to execute the direct marketing campaign on the full consumer/credit database, which is preferably updated approximately twice weekly. In one preferred embodiment, the data for the test database represents a random sampling of approximately 10% of the full database and the sampling is regenerated approximately weekly in order to provide a stable set of data on which campaign developers may test their campaign. For each consumer in the sampling, the environment may allow a client to access and use both attributes calculated by the credit bureau and proprietary attributes and data owned by the client.

Abstract: A digital targeting system is configured to access data to determine users that satisfy content factors, such as pre-validation criteria, based on user information stored in a database having restrictions on sharing of user data, such as government regulations on sharing of the user information. The digital targeting system may then generate a pre-validated user ID list indicating those users that match the content factors. Users on the pre-validated user ID list may then be matched to users in other databases, such as a digital ID database, to identify digital IDs for the users that are usable by a digital display entity.

Abstract: Features are described for efficiently and accurately identifying a user of an electronic device with limited user interaction. The features include receiving a mobile device identifier from the mobile device. The features include transmitting the mobile device identifier to a service provider associated with the mobile device. The features include receiving information identifying the user from the service provider. The features include identifying a set of candidates associated with at least a portion of the information. The features include generating a metric for the candidates included in the set of candidates. An individual metric indicates a degree of relatedness between a value for the user for the at least one data field and a value for a candidate for the at least one data field. The features include identifying the user as a specific candidate included in the set of candidates based on the metric corresponding to a threshold.

Abstract: The systems and methods described herein allow consumers to lock or unlock their credit files at multiple credit bureaus in real-time or near real-time. The service may allow a consumer to provide identifying information, such as a personal identifier to lock or unlock credit files at a plurality of credit bureaus over a network. Upon receiving the personal identifier, the system may use the personal identifier to translate the identifier into a plurality of access codes for respective credit bureaus, for example by accessing a data structure, such as a database or table, that stores a personal identifier and access codes that are associated with a consumer. The system may then use the access codes to automatically initiate locking or unlocking of credit files for the consumer at the respective credit bureaus.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention assist in the development, management, and deployment of aggregated data attributes for multiple data sources. One embodiment provides a development interface that allows for elements of attributes, including filters, to be moved into a coding area in which an attribute or an attribute element is being edited. In another embodiment, the user interface presents data fields to assist in the development of filters for multiple data sources with divergent formats. The application further provides a validation interface through which users can validate attributes and trace the results returned by various elements referenced by the attributes under validation. Another embodiment provides a system for managing attributes and deploying them to various systems by creating a deployment file that is used by an attribute calculation system. In one embodiment, the attribute calculation system is a scalable system that dynamically calculates attributes for multiple data sources.

Abstract: Systems and methods are described for identifying a subset of interest from a general population and for monitoring a database of daily activity logs associated with the general population in order to identify database entries indicative of an occurrence of a pre-defined trigger event that is associated with a member of the subset of interest. In particular, systems and methods are described that allow a massive database of daily activity logs to be monitored to identify trigger events that have occurred within the past twenty-four hours or other very recent time period. Embodiments are described that may be advantageously used by a provider of credit-related products and/or services who wishes to accurately target prospective customers, identified by the system, based on occurrence of a trigger event, as being in a decision-making phase of credit shopping, for purposes of making a timely and targeted offering relevant to the customers' current activities.

Abstract: One embodiment of the system and method described herein provides a computer system configured to provide an interface for operation by a user at a remote computing device, receive a request from the user for a vehicle history report of a vehicle. The computer system is further configured to prompt the user for interest in a prequalification for a financing offer. The computer system is further configured to receive the indication of the user's interest in the prequalification. The system also includes a data storage module, accessible by the computer system, configured to retrieve data corresponding to the vehicle, store the retrieved data, retrieve data corresponding to a determination regarding the prequalification for the financing offer, and store the retrieved determination. The computer system is further configured to convey the vehicle history report to the user and convey the prequalification determination to the user.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes systems and methods for automatically rolling-up data associated with one or more geographic units, such as ZIP+4 codes, such that the rollup comprises a minimum number of households to protect anonymity and ensure compliance with privacy regulations, while preserving variance of the underlying data associated with the geographic regions. Data attributes may include demographic data, socio-economic data, lifestyle segmentation, psychographic data, behavioral data, credit data, and other data. The rollup process may involve identifying one or more geographic units with a number of households below a minimum or threshold amount, applying filters to find candidate geographic units for rollup, scoring candidate geographic units to select best pairings for rollup, and repeating until the rollup group has at least the minimum number of households. The process may make trades off between granularity (e.g.

Abstract: Embodiments of a data processing system is disclosed for accessing databases and generating notifications.