Patents by Inventor Hans Van Arkel
Hans Van Arkel has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 7197560Abstract: A fraud monitoring system is disclosed for a communications system. The fraud monitoring system analyzes records of usage activity in the system and applies fraud pattern detection algorithms to detect patterns indicative of fraud. The fraud monitoring system advantageously accommodates transaction both records resulting from control of a packet-switched network and those from a circuit-switched network gateway.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2002Date of Patent: March 27, 2007Assignee: MCI, LLCInventors: Michael Caslin, John Hans Van Arkel, Arthur Lance Springer
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Patent number: 7117191Abstract: A system, method and computer program product for processing event records. The present invention includes a detection layer, an analysis layer, an expert systems layer and a presentation layer. The layered system includes a core infrastructure and a configurable, domain-specific implementation. The detection layer employs one or more detection engines, such as a rules-based thresholding engine and a profiling engine. The detection layer can include an Artificial Intelligence based pattern recognition engine for analyzing data records, for detecting new and interesting patterns and for updating the detection engines to insure that the detection engines can detect the new patterns. In one embodiment, the present invention is implemented as a telecommunications fraud detection system. When fraud is detected, the detection layer generates alarms which are sent to the analysis layer. The analysis layer filters and consolidates the alarms to generate fraud cases.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2003Date of Patent: October 3, 2006Assignee: MCI, Inc.Inventors: John Gavan, Kevin Paul, Jim Richards, Charles A. Dallas, Hans Van Arkel, Cheryl Herrington, Saralyn M. Mahone, Terrill J. Curtis, James J. Wagner
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Patent number: 7113932Abstract: A data processing system program to develop, train, and implement a neural network for identifying customers who represent a bad debt risk is disclosed. A feature vector is applied to a neural network to generate outputs that approximate the relative likelihood that customers who are the subjects of the records used to generate the feature vector will be a bad debt risk. Statistical values relating categorical attributes of the customers to the likelihood of their becoming a bad debt risk are substituted for the categorical attributes, and the attributes are normalized before the feature vector is applied to the network. In one embodiment the customers are customers of a long distance service provider.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2002Date of Patent: September 26, 2006Assignee: MCI, LLCInventors: Mohammad Reza Tayebnejad, Karl Aric Van Camp, Charles Alan Dallas, John Hans Van Arkel
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Publication number: 20050075992Abstract: A system, method and computer program product for processing event records. The present invention includes a detection layer, an analysis layer, an expert systems layer and a presentation layer. The layered system includes a core infrastructure and a configurable, domain-specific implementation. The detection layer employs one or more detection engines, such as a rules-based thresholding engine and a profiling engine. The detection layer can include an Artificial Intelligence based pattern recognition engine for analyzing data records, for detecting new and interesting patterns and for updating the detection engines to insure that the detection engines can detect the new patterns. In one embodiment, the present invention is implemented as a telecommunications fraud detection system. When fraud is detected, the detection layer generates alarms which are sent to the analysis layer. The analysis layer filters and consolidates the alarms to generate fraud cases.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2003Publication date: April 7, 2005Applicant: MCI WORLDCOM, INC.Inventors: John Gavan, Kevin Paul, Jim Richards, Charles Dallas, Hans Van Arkel, Cheryl Herrington, Saralyn Mahone, Terrill Curtis, James Wagner
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Publication number: 20040111305Abstract: A system, method and computer program product for processing event records. The present invention includes a detection layer, an analysis layer, an expert systems layer and a presentation layer. The layered system includes a core infrastructure and a configurable, domain-specific implementation. The detection layer employs one or more detection engines, such as, for example, a rules-based thresholding engine and a profiling engine. The detection layer can include an AI-based pattern recognition engine for analyzing data records, for detecting new and interesting patterns and for updating the detection engines to insure that the detection engines can detect the new patterns. In one embodiment, the present invention is implemented as a telecommunications fraud detection system. When fraud is detected, the detection layer generates alarms which are sent to the analysis layer. The analysis layer filters and consolidates the alarms to generate fraud cases.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2003Publication date: June 10, 2004Applicant: WorldCom, INC.Inventors: John Gavan, Kevin Paul, Jim Richards, Charles A. Dallas, Hans Van Arkel, Cheryl Herrington, Saralyn Mahone, Terreil J. Curtis, James J. Wagner
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Patent number: 6732082Abstract: A system, method and computer program product for processing event records. The present invention includes a detection layer, an analysis layer, an expert systems layer and a presentation layer. The layered system includes a core infrastructure and a configurable, domain-specific implementation. The detection layer employs one or more detection engines, such as a rules-based thresholding engine and a profiling engine. The detection layer can include an Artificial Intelligence based pattern recognition engine for analyzing data records, for detecting new and interesting patterns and for updating the detection engines to insure that the detection engines can detect the new patterns. In one embodiment, the present invention is implemented as a telecommunications fraud detection system. When fraud is detected, the detection layer generates alarms which are sent to the analysis layer. The analysis layer filters and consolidates the alarms to generate fraud cases.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 1998Date of Patent: May 4, 2004Assignee: WorldCom, Inc.Inventors: John Gavan, Kevin Paul, Jim Richards, Charles A. Dallas, Hans Van Arkel, Cheryl Herrington, Saralyn M. Mahone, Terrill J. Curtis, James J. Wagner
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Patent number: 6601048Abstract: A system, method and computer program product for processing event records. The present invention includes a detection layer, an analysis layer, an expert systems layer and a presentation layer. The layered system includes a core infrastructure and a configurable, domain-specific implementation. The detection layer employs one or more detection engines, such as, for example, a rules-based thresholding engine and a profiling engine. The detection layer can include an AI-based pattern recognition engine for analyzing data records, for detecting new and interesting patterns and for updating the detection engines to insure that the detection engines can detect the new patterns. In one embodiment, the present invention is implemented as a telecommunications fraud detection system. When fraud is detected, the detection layer generates alarms which are sent to the analysis layer. The analysis layer filters and consolidates the alarms to generate fraud cases.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 1997Date of Patent: July 29, 2003Assignee: MCI Communications CorporationInventors: John Gavan, Kevin Paul, Jim Richards, Charles A. Dallas, Hans Van Arkel, Cheryl Herrington, Saralyn Mahone, Terril J. Curtis, James J. Wagner
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Publication number: 20020188712Abstract: A fraud monitoring system is disclosed for a communications system. The fraud monitoring system analyzes records of usage activity in the system and applies fraud pattern detection algorithms to detect patterns indicative of fraud. The fraud monitoring system advantageously accommodates transaction both records resulting from control of a packet-switched network and those from a circuit-switched network gateway.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2002Publication date: December 12, 2002Applicant: WorldCom, INC.Inventors: Michael Caslin, John Hans Van Arkel, Arthur Lance Springer
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Publication number: 20020161731Abstract: A data processing system program to develop, train, and implement a neural network for identifying customers who represent a bad debt risk is disclosed. A feature vector is applied to a neural network to generate outputs that approximate the relative likelihood that customers who are the subjects of the records used to generate the feature vector will be a bad debt risk. Statistical values relating categorical attributes of the customers to the likelihood of their becoming a bad debt risk are substituted for the categorical attributes, and the attributes are normalized before the feature vector is applied to the network. In one embodiment the customers are customers of a long distance service provider.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2002Publication date: October 31, 2002Inventors: Mohammad Reza Tayebnejad, Karl Aric Van Camp, Charles Alan Dallas, John Hans Van Arkel
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Patent number: 6208720Abstract: A configurable and scalable rules-based thresholding system, method and computer program product for processing event records includes a core infrastructure and a configurable domain-specific implementation. The core infrastructure is generically employed regardless of the actual type of network being monitored. The domain-specific implementation is provided with user specific data and rules. The core infrastructure includes an event record enhancer which enhances events with additional data and a threshold detector which determines whether an enhanced event record, alone or in light of prior event records, exceeds one or more thresholds. The enhancer can access external databases for additional information related to an event record. In one embodiment, the enhancer generates feature vectors to represent enhanced event records. The threshold detector receives enhanced event records from the event record enhancer.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 1998Date of Patent: March 27, 2001Assignee: MCI Communications CorporationInventors: Terrill J. Curtis, Charles A. Dallas, John Gavan, Cheryl Herrington, Saralyn Mahone, Kevin Paul, Jim Richards, Hans Van Arkel, James J. Wagner