US 11,531,711 B1Granted

Forensic criminal investigation digital data intersection

AssigneeNighthawk.Cloud Inc.

InventorPeter R. Molina

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Abstract

Systems and methods are disclosed for finding intersections between digital interactions of two users (or a user and specific data) based on two different digital interaction data sets. For example, a digital interaction database may include a first user's mobile phone records from a first mobile company and a second user's mobile phone records from a second mobile phone company. The first user's mobile phone records and the second user's mobile phone records may be organized differently, may have different data elements, may have different format styles, etc. Yet an intersection between the first user and the second user may be found by searching the first user's mobile phone records and/or the second user's mobile phone records and retrieving related digital interactions such as, for example, phone records showing a phone call or message between the first user and the second user.

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Dependent claims

A computer implemented method for forensic criminal investigation, the method comprising:

maintaining in a digital interaction database a first plurality of digital records of interaction between a first identifier associated with a first individual and a first plurality identifiers associated with a first plurality of individuals, the first plurality of digital records having been recorded by a first provider, each of the first plurality of digital records including a plurality of data elements;
maintaining in the digital interaction database a second plurality of digital records of interaction between a second identifier associated with a second individual and a second plurality of identifiers associated with a second plurality individuals, the second plurality of digital records having been recorded by a second provider, the second provider being different and distinct from the first provider, each of the second plurality of digital records of interactions including a plurality of data elements;
searching for an interaction between a data element of the first plurality of digital records and a data element of the second plurality of digital records;
establishing a first digital interaction between the first individual and the second individual based on an interaction between the data element of the first plurality of digital records and the data element of the second plurality of digital records;
and
creating a graphical representation comprising information about the first digital interaction between the first individual and the second individual.

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A computing cloud for forensic criminal investigation comprising at least one data storage unit and at least one memory device configured to store instructions and at least one computer processing unit configure to execute the instructions, wherein the computing cloud:

maintains in a digital interaction database stored in the data storage unit a first plurality of digital records a first plurality of digital records of interaction between a first identifier associated with a first individual and a first plurality identifiers associated with a first plurality of individuals, the first plurality of digital records having been recorded by a first provider;
maintains in the digital interaction database a second plurality of digital records a second plurality of digital records of interaction between a second identifier associated with a second individual and a second plurality of identifiers associated with a second plurality individuals, the second plurality of digital records having been recorded by a second provider, the second provider being different and distinct from the first provider;
search for an intersection between the second identifier and an identifier in the first plurality of identifiers;
establish a first digital interaction between the first individual and the second individual based on an intersection between the second identifier and an identifier of the first plurality of identifiers;
and
create a graphical representation comprising information about the first digital interaction between the first individual and the second individual.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.