Patents by Inventor Michael A. Lazarus
Michael A. Lazarus 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: 8296250Abstract: A system and method for protecting identity fraud are disclosed. A system includes a detection subsystem to identify applications and/or accounts at risk of identity fraud, and a disposition subsystem to process data provided by the detection system and to determine whether identity fraud exists in the applications and/or accounts. According to an implementation, one or more neural network models are defined, each neural network model being configured to handle a class of cases related to the subject and a specific data configuration describing a case of the class. The one or more neural network models are run to generate data requests about the subject's identity, and the data requests are passed to a detection system that monitor transactions associated with the subject. Additional data associated with the transactions is requested until a threshold certainty is achieved or until available data or models are exhausted.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2011Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Fair Isaac CorporationInventors: Theodore J. Crooks, Uwe F. Mayer, Michael A. Lazarus
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Publication number: 20110289032Abstract: A system and method for protecting identity fraud are disclosed. A system includes a detection subsystem to identify applications and/or accounts at risk of identity fraud, and a disposition subsystem to process data provided by the detection system and to determine whether identity fraud exists in the applications and/or accounts. According to an implementation, one or more neural network models are defined, each neural network model being configured to handle a class of cases related to the subject and a specific data configuration describing a case of the class. The one or more neural network models are run to generate data requests about the subject's identity, and the data requests are passed to a detection system that monitor transactions associated with the subject. Additional data associated with the transactions is requested until a threshold certainty is achieved or until available data or models are exhausted.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2011Publication date: November 24, 2011Inventors: Theodore J. Crooks, Uwe F. Mayer, Michael A. Lazarus
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Patent number: 7991716Abstract: A system and method for protecting identity fraud are disclosed. A system includes a detection subsystem to identify applications and/or accounts at risk of identity fraud, and a disposition subsystem to process data provided by the detection system and to determine whether identity fraud exists in the applications and/or accounts. According to an implementation, one or more neural network models are defined, each neural network model being configured to handle a class of cases related to the subject and a specific data configuration describing a case of the class. The one or more neural network models are run to generate data requests about the subject's identity, and the data requests are passed to a detection system that monitor transactions associated with the subject. Additional data associated with the transactions is requested until a threshold certainty is achieved or until available data or models are exhausted.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2010Date of Patent: August 2, 2011Assignee: Fair Isaac CorporationInventors: Theodore J. Crooks, Uwe F. Mayer, Michael A. Lazarus
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Publication number: 20110137840Abstract: A system and method for protecting identity fraud are disclosed. A system includes a detection subsystem to identify applications and/or accounts at risk of identity fraud, and a disposition subsystem to process data provided by the detection system and to determine whether identity fraud exists in the applications and/or accounts. According to an implementation, one or more neural network models are defined, each neural network model being configured to handle a class of cases related to the subject and a specific data configuration describing a case of the class. The one or more neural network models are run to generate data requests about the subject's identity, and the data requests are passed to a detection system that monitor transactions associated with the subject. Additional data associated with the transactions is requested until a threshold certainty is achieved or until available data or models are exhausted.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2010Publication date: June 9, 2011Inventors: Theodore J. Crooks, Uwe F. Mayer, Michael A. Lazarus
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Patent number: 7849029Abstract: A system and method for protecting identity fraud are disclosed. A system includes a detection subsystem to identify applications and/or accounts at risk of identity fraud, and a disposition subsystem to process data provided by the detection system and to determine whether identity fraud exists in the applications and/or accounts. According to an implementation, one or more neural network models are defined, each neural network model being configured to handle a class of cases related to the subject and a specific data configuration describing a case of the class. The one or more neural network models are run to generate data requests about the subject's identity, and the data requests are passed to a detection system that monitor transactions associated with the subject. Additional data associated with the transactions is requested until a threshold certainty is achieved or until available data or models are exhausted.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2006Date of Patent: December 7, 2010Assignee: Fair Isaac CorporationInventors: Theodore J. Crooks, Uwe F. Mayer, Michael A. Lazarus
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Patent number: 7533038Abstract: Predictive modeling of consumer financial behavior, including determination of likely responses to particular marketing efforts, is provided by application of consumer transaction data to predictive models associated with merchant segments. The merchant segments are derived from the consumer transaction data based on co-occurrences of merchants in sequences of transactions. Merchant vectors represent specific merchants, and are aligned in a vector space as a function of the degree to which the merchants co-occur more or less frequently than expected. Supervised segmentation is applied to merchant vectors to form the merchant segments. Merchant segment predictive models provide predictions of spending in each merchant segment for any particular consumer, based on previous spending by the consumer. Consumer profiles describe summary statistics of each consumer's spending in the merchant segments, and across merchant segments.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2007Date of Patent: May 12, 2009Assignee: Fair Isaac CorporationInventors: Matthias Blume, Michael A. Lazarus, Larry S. Peranich, Frederique Vernhes, Kenneth B. Brown, William R. Caid, Ted E. Dunning, Gerald R. Russell, Kevin L. Sitze
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Patent number: 7165037Abstract: Predictive modeling of consumer financial behavior, including determination of likely responses to particular marketing efforts, is provided by application of consumer transaction data to predictive models associated with merchant segments, which are derived from the consumer transaction data based on co-occurrences of merchants in sequences of transactions. Merchant vectors represent specific merchants, and are aligned in a vector space as a function of the degree to which the merchants co-occur. Supervised segmentation is applied to merchant vectors to form merchant segments. Merchant segment predictive models provide predictions of spending in each merchant segment for any particular consumer, based on previous spending by the consumer. Consumer profiles describe summary statistics of each consumer's spending in the merchant segments, and across merchant segments. Consumer profiles include consumer vectors derived as summary vectors of selected merchants patronized by the consumer.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2004Date of Patent: January 16, 2007Assignee: Fair Isaac CorporationInventors: Michael A. Lazarus, Larry S. Peranich, Frederique Vernhes, A. U. Mattias Blume, Kenneth B. Brown, William R. Caid, Ted E. Dunning, Gerald R. Russell, Kevin L. Sitze
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Patent number: 6839682Abstract: Predictive modeling of consumer financial behavior, including determination of likely responses to particular marketing efforts, is provided by application of consumer transaction data to predictive models associated with merchant segments. The merchant segments are derived from the consumer transaction data based on co-occurrences of merchants in sequences of transactions. Merchant vectors represent specific merchants, and are aligned in a vector space as a function of the degree to which the merchants co-occur more or less frequently than expected. Consumer vectors are developed within the vector space, to represent interests of particular consumers by virtue of relative vector positions of consumer and merchant vectors. Various techniques, including clustering, supervised segmentation, and nearest-neighbor analysis, are applied separately or in combination to generate improved predictions of consumer behavior.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2000Date of Patent: January 4, 2005Assignee: Fair Isaac CorporationInventors: Matthias Blume, Michael A. Lazarus, Larry S. Peranich, Frederique Vernhes, William R. Caid, Ted E. Dunning, Gerald R. Russell, Kevin L. Sitze
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Patent number: 6430539Abstract: Predictive modeling of consumer financial behavior is provided by application of consumer transaction data to predictive models associated with merchant segments. Merchant segments are derived from consumer transaction data based on co-occurrences of merchants in sequences of transactions. Merchant vectors representing specific merchants are clustered to form merchant segments in a vector space as a function of the degree to which merchants co-occur more or less frequently than expected. Each merchant segment is trained using consumer transaction data in selected past time periods to predict spending in subsequent time periods for a consumer based on previous spending by the consumer. Consumer profiles describe summary statistics of consumer spending in and across merchant segments. Analysis of consumers associated with a segment identifies selected consumers according to predicted spending in the segment or other criteria, and the targeting of promotional offers specific to the segment and its merchants.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 1999Date of Patent: August 6, 2002Assignee: HNC SoftwareInventors: Michael A. Lazarus, A. U. Mattias Blume, Kenneth B. Brown, William R. Caid, Ted E. Dunning, Larry S. Peranich, Gerald R. Russell, Kevin L. Sitze
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Patent number: 6330546Abstract: An automated system and method detects fraudulent transactions using a predictive model such as a neural network to evaluate individual customer accounts and identify potentially fraudulent transactions based on learned relationships among known variables. The system may also output reason codes indicating relative contributions of various variables to a particular result. The system periodically monitors its performance and redevelops the model when performance drops below a predetermined level.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 1998Date of Patent: December 11, 2001Assignee: HNC Software, Inc.Inventors: Krishna M. Gopinathan, Allen Jost, Louis S. Biafore, William M. Ferguson, Michael A. Lazarus, Anu K. Pathria
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Patent number: 6134532Abstract: A system and method for selecting and presenting personally targeted entities such as advertising, coupons, products and information content, based on tracking observed behavior on a user-by-user basis and utilizing an adaptive vector space representation for both information and behavior. The system matches users to entities in a manner that improves with increased operation and observation of user behavior. User behavior and entities (ads, coupons, products) and information (text) are all represented as content vectors in a unified vector space. The system is based on an information representation called content vectors that utilizes a constrained self organization learning technique to learn the relationships between symbols (typically words in unstructured text). Users and entities are each represented as content vectors.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 1997Date of Patent: October 17, 2000Assignee: Aptex Software, Inc.Inventors: Michael A. Lazarus, William R. Caid, Richard S. Pugh, Bradley D. Kindig, Gerald S. Russell, Kenneth B. Brown, Ted E. Dunning, Joel L. Carleton
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Patent number: 5819226Abstract: An automated system and method detects fraudulent transactions using a predictive model such as a neural network to evaluate individual customer accounts and identify potentially fraudulent transactions based on learned relationships among known variables. The system may also output reason codes indicating relative contributions of various variables to a particular result. The system periodically monitors its performance and redevelops the model when performance drops below a predetermined level.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 1992Date of Patent: October 6, 1998Assignee: HNC Software Inc.Inventors: Krishna M. Gopinathan, Louis S. Biafore, William M. Ferguson, Michael A. Lazarus, Anu K. Pathria, Allen Jost
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Patent number: RE42577Abstract: Predictive modeling of consumer financial behavior, including determination of likely responses to particular marketing efforts, is provided by application of consumer transaction data to predictive models associated with merchant segments. The merchant segments are derived from the consumer transaction data based on co-occurrences of merchants in sequences of transactions. Merchant vectors represent specific merchants, and are aligned in a vector space as a function of the degree to which the merchants co-occur more or less frequently than expected. Supervised segmentation is applied to merchant vectors to form the merchant segments. Merchant segment predictive models provide predictions of spending in each merchant segment for any particular consumer, based on previous spending by the consumer. Consumer profiles describe summary statistics of each consumer's spending in the merchant segments, and across merchant segments.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2010Date of Patent: July 26, 2011Assignee: Kuhuro Investments AG, L.L.C.Inventors: Matthias Blume, Michael A. Lazarus, Larry S. Peranich, Frederique Vernhes, William R. Caid, Ted E. Dunning, Gerald S. Russell, Kevin L. Sitze