Patents Assigned to Dun and Bradstreet
  • Publication number: 20250061220
    Abstract: An empirically rigorous system and method for establishing a digital fingerprint of a pattern of behavior and then prosecuting any ecosystem (either the one in which that pattern was found or a completely disparate one) for isomorphic relationships that resemble that pattern of behavior in a meaningful and quantifiable way. The method also addresses concerns of bias including random discovery, anecdotal similarity, and computational intractability. Applications include the discovery of patterns indicative of money laundering, fraud, and malfeasance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicant: The Dun and Bradstreet Corporation
    Inventors: Anthony Scriffignano, Ilya Meyzin, Kamel Belkacem-Boussaid, Yan Vtorov, Nikouei Mohammad, David Spingam, Jason Cawley, Marco Guidetti, Pipa Cammack
  • Patent number: 12008320
    Abstract: There is provided a process for extracting contact data from a signature block in an unstructured text or email. The process includes (a) determining a position of a signature block candidate within the unstructured text or email, (b) validating patterns and sentence bounds and/or parts of speech detection in the signature block candidate, (c) using a pattern matcher to detect a business name candidate, (d) using an attribute parser to extract attributes of standard formats, (e) sending the extracted attributes to a structured contact profile data file, (f) using a fuzzy match model to determine if the business name candidate is a match to a pre-existing organization name, (g) assigning an attribute confidence score to the business name candidate, (h) sending the attribute confidence score to the structured contact data file, (i) extracting structured address information, and (j) sending the extracted address information to the structured contact data file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: THE DUN AND BRADSTREET CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mikhail Reyderman
  • Patent number: 12001480
    Abstract: A system and method for determining the extent of beneficial ownership of a target business by populating a database structure wherein businesses and ownership relationships between the business are represented by nodes and links. Steps include querying the database to establish the related ownership links; analyzing results of the query to determine ownership loops; de-looping the ownership relationships; and calculating the percentage ownership of each of the beneficial owners of the target business based on de-looped ownership relationships. A computer readable non-transitory storage medium stores instructions of a computer program, which when executed by a computer system results in performance of steps of the method. A system architecture having features uniquely suited to the task is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: THE DUN AND BRADSTREET CORPORATION
    Inventors: Stuart Swindell, Yunhong Liu, Thomas Kelly, Paul Westcott
  • Patent number: 11689492
    Abstract: A system and method for identifying previously unknown counterparties by registering distributed ledger public keys and/or addresses associated with specific business entities and/or individuals. The system and method are configured to provide tools for administering public facing distributed ledger identifiers using cryptographic proof messaging and transactions made on the Distributed Ledger. It also provides queries and lookups to discover public keys associated with entities and allows users to link identifiers on competing Distributed Ledgers to a disambiguated entity, thereby enabling cross Ledger transactions to occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: THE DUN AND BRADSTREET CORPORATION
    Inventors: Saleem Khan, Jacob Caleb Gostylo
  • Patent number: 11651253
    Abstract: A method and system for identifying and classifying Visitor Information tracked on websites to identify Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and non-Internet Service Providers (non-ISPs). The technology employs machine intelligence to train a classifier on firmographically-enriched Visitor Intelligence from website tracking technology. The ISP classifier can distinguish ISPs from non-ISPs to identify website traffic for a given website that is attributable to ISPs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: THE DUN AND BRADSTREET CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lavina Choudhary, James Beveridge, Alexander T. Schwarm, Anudit Vikram
  • Publication number: 20230105736
    Abstract: A method that includes (a) receiving a training dataset, a testing dataset, a number of iterations, and a parameter space of possible parameter values that define a base model, (b) for the number of iterations, performing a parametric search process that produces a report that includes information concerning a plurality of machine learning models, where the parametric search process includes (i) generating a Bayesian optimized parameter space with an option to validate through Stratified Kfold cross validation, where an optimized parameter set includes training data from the training dataset, and testing data from the testing dataset, (ii) running the base model with the final optimized parameter set, thus yielding model results for the plurality of machine learning models, (iii) calculating Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) statistics for the model results, and (iv) saving the model results and the KS statistics to the report, and (c) sending the report to a user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: THE DUN AND BRADSTREET CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shreyas Raghavan, Shankarram Subramanian, Karolina Anna Kierzkowski, Jahnab Kumar Deka, Chang Lin
  • Patent number: 11487991
    Abstract: A classification system is provided for classifying text-based business summaries, referred to herein as “summaries,” against a hierarchical industry classification structure. The classification system includes a word-based sub classifier that uses a neural network to generate a vector space for each summary in a training set, where each summary in the training set is known to correspond to a particular industry classification in the hierarchical industry classification structure. Weight values in the hidden layer of a neural network used by the word-based sub classifier are changed to improve the predictive capabilities of the neural network in the business summary classification context. Embodiments include increasing representation in the training set for underrepresented parent industry classifications and attributes of the hierarchical industry classification structure, such as distances between industry classifications and whether industry classifications are in the same subgraph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: THE DUN AND BRADSTREET CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nikita Zhiltsov
  • Publication number: 20220343433
    Abstract: There is provided a method that includes (a) receiving data indicative of an environmental (E), social (S) and governance (G) objective, and measurements of ESG components, (b) creating a set of N-grams for each ESG component, (c) searching a database, based on the set of N-grams, to obtain ESG data, and (d) generating an ESG score based on the ESG data. There is also provided a system that performs the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: THE DUN AND BRADSTREET CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jingtao Jonathan Yan, Alla Kramskaia, Rochelle March
  • Patent number: 11386336
    Abstract: Embodiments of a system and method for identifying and prioritizing company prospects by training at least one classifier on client company win/loss metrics. One or more classifiers can be trained on a training database compiled from company win/loss database for a client and firmographic data from a robust business entity database. Once trained, the system can employ Artificial Intelligence powered by the trained classifiers to classify and output customized prospect lists of thousands of profiled and scored companies that the AI has determined are likely targets for specific marketing and sales. The AI can also ingest databases of client targets and classify and score them based on the custom-trained classifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: THE DUN AND BRADSTREET CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alexander T. Schwarm, James Beveridge, Nalanda Matia, Granger Huntress, Bradley White, Karolina Kierzkowski, Nicholas Lizotte
  • Patent number: 11386435
    Abstract: An identification and assessment system that flags business entities that are current or future Third Party Intermediaries and provides compliance risk ratings In at least one embodiment, the system is configured for TPI identification to enable companies to optimize compliance efforts, for example, effective anti-bribery and anti-corruption compliance. The system is configured to identify TPI likelihood and General Compliance Risk Rating to enable businesses to setup anti-bribery and anti-corruption (ABAC) strategies to focus on those high-risk TPIs, perform due diligence, and mitigate compliance risk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: THE DUN AND BRADSTREET CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jingtao Jonathan Yan, Nipa Basu, Alla Kramskaia
  • Patent number: 11303603
    Abstract: A system and method for identifying previously unknown counterparties by registering distributed ledger public keys and/or addresses associated with specific business entities and/or individuals. The system and method are configured to provide tools for administering public facing distributed ledger identifiers using cryptographic proof messaging and transactions made on the Distributed Ledger. It also provides queries and lookups to discover public keys associated with entities and allows users to link identifiers on competing Distributed Ledgers to a disambiguated entity, thereby enabling cross Ledger transactions to occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: THE DUN AND BRADSTREET CORPORATION
    Inventors: Saleem Khan, Jacob Caleb Gostylo
  • Patent number: 11238233
    Abstract: A method and system for employing a Language Processing machine learning Artificial Intelligence engine to employ word embeddings and term frequency-inverse document frequency to create numerical representations of document meaning in a high-dimensional semantic space or an overall semantic direction. This semantic direction can be used to quantitatively measure semantic similarity between online content consumed by a potential prospect and a given product or product family. The AI can automate the process of creating audiences for on-line marketplaces for programmatic advertising purposes by using representative product descriptions, such as a grouping of product descriptions for scalable, cloud-based databases, and then creating a hyper-focused intent-based audience based on companies that are showing a significant increase in intent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: THE DUN AND BRADSTREET CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alexander T. Schwarm, James Beveridge, Dane Anthony Macaulay, Anudit Vikram
  • Patent number: 11222073
    Abstract: A system and method for determining the extent of beneficial ownership of a target business by populating a database structure wherein businesses and ownership relationships between the business are represented by nodes and links. Steps include querying the database to establish the related ownership links; analyzing the query to determine ownership loops; de-looping the ownership relationships; and calculating the percentage ownership of each of the beneficial owners of the target business based on de-looped ownership relationships. A computer readable non-transitory storage medium stores instructions of a computer program, which when executed by a computer system results in performance of steps of the method. A system architecture having features uniquely suited to the task is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: THE DUN AND BRADSTREET CORPORATION
    Inventors: Stuart Swindell, Yunhong Liu, Thomas Kelly, Paul Westcott
  • Patent number: 11037230
    Abstract: There is provided a method that includes (a) presenting, via a communications network, a first interface that enables a creditor to access a credit application template, to create a customized credit application, and (b) presenting, via the communications network, a second interface that enables a credit applicant to access the customized credit application and provide information required by the customized credit application. There is also provided a system that executes the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: DUN AND BRADSTREET, INC.
    Inventors: David Bruce Ingerman, Neel Lee Chauhan, Jeffrey Lewis Kaufman
  • Patent number: 10997532
    Abstract: A system for assessing and optimizing master data maturity for an enterprise master data architecture. The master data maturity analysis system generates a master data maturity matrix for individual master data users. Each unique master data user's master data maturity matrix is used to generate master data matrices for other hierarchical entities for an enterprise such as lines of business and/or the enterprise as a whole. Master data maturity matrices are stored over time and tracked to assess and optimize the master data maturity and improvement of the master data technology vertically and horizontally across all enterprise hierarchies and business components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: THE DUN AND BRADSTREET CORPORATION
    Inventor: Diwakar Ray Govindugari
  • Publication number: 20180225600
    Abstract: A system for assessing and optimizing master data maturity for an enterprise master data architecture. The master data maturity analysis system generates a master data maturity matrix for individual master data users. Each unique master data user's master data maturity matrix is used to generate master data matrices for other hierarchical entities for an enterprise such as lines of business and/or the enterprise as a whole. Master data maturity matrices are stored over time and tracked to assess and optimize the master data maturity and improvement of the master data technology vertically and horizontally across all enterprise hierarchies and business components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Applicant: The Dun and Bradstreet Corporation
    Inventor: Diwakar Ray Govindugari
  • Publication number: 20130132269
    Abstract: A method for evaluating a risk of default for a business. The method includes categorizing commercial data into a plurality of commercial attributes, allocating each of the commercial attributes to at least one of a plurality of commercial modules, ranking each of the commercial attributes according to best-attributes for each one of the plurality of commercial modules, applying a logistic regression model to the best-attributes to yield a commercial score for each one of the plurality of commercial modules; and determining a commercial risk model score by combining all of the commercial scores for the plurality of commercial modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2013
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicant: The Dun and Bradstreet Corporation
    Inventor: The Dun and Bradstreet Corporation
  • Publication number: 20120296951
    Abstract: There is provided a method that includes (a) receiving a first request message and a second request message, (b) instantiating a first message handler and instantiating a second message handler, and (c) concurrently processing (i) the first request message via the first message handler to yield a first response message, and (ii) the second request message via the second message handler to yield a second response message. There is also provided a system that employs the method, and a storage medium that contains instructions that cause a processor to perform the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: The Dun and Bradstreet Corporation
    Inventor: David Neil Roberts
  • Patent number: 7716141
    Abstract: A method for providing business information comprises receiving a request, a selected industry, and a selected region, then generating report data, and providing a printable industry report. The industry report has charts and a map and is divided into a national market overview section, a market dynamics section, and a company information section. A system for providing business information has an application server, a web server, and a memory, such as a database. The application server fabricates a data product. The web server processes requests from the application server and provides the data product in an industry report. The web server includes charting and mapping components. For rapid retrieval, the database stores a table of company information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Dun and Bradstreet Corporation
    Inventors: John Robert Stewart, Douglas LaBahn
  • Patent number: 7708196
    Abstract: A method of providing business information data to a user, including allowing the user unlimited access to interactive, customizable modular applications through a single platform. The applications interface with a database to provide real-time business information data to the user, the business information data relating to an entity and being based on a unique corporate identification number associated with the entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Dun and Bradstreet Corporation
    Inventors: David Palmieri, David Ingerman, Amy Hayenhjelm, Peter F. Kinkel, Robert Tam, Keith E Gastauer, Ruth J Davis, Angelo Sirigos, Curtis W Harris, Joseph Davidchik, Michele Iacavone, Liz Templin, Jesus Urriola, Omcar S Paradkar, Busse B Benjamin, Jeffrey L Kaufman, Prashant Tyagi, Angel Gutierrez