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AssigneeMCI WorldCom, Inc.
InventorsJohn Gavan, Kevin Paul, Jim Richards, Charles Dallas, Hans Van Arkel, Cheryl Herrington, Saralyn Mahone, Terrill Curtis, James Wagner
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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. The analysis layer preferably generates a probability of fraud for each fraud case. The expert systems layer receives fraud cases and automatically initiates actions for certain fraud cases. The presentation layer also receives fraud cases for presentation to human analysts. The presentation layer permits the human analysts to initiate additional actions.
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A method for detecting fraud in at least one telecommunications network, the method comprising:
A fraud detection system for use with a telecommunications system, the telecommunications system including at least one type of communications network, the at least one type of telecommunications network being configured to generate network event records in a network specific format, each network event record being generated in response to an event occurring in the telecommunications network, the fraud detection system comprising:
The system of claim 25, wherein said at least one fraud detection engine comprises a rules-based thresholding engine.
The system of claim 25, wherein said at least one fraud detection engine comprises:
A method for preventing fraud in a telecommunications system including at least one telephone network, the method being performed in system comprising a scalable, non-domain specific core infrastructure and a user-configurable, domain-specific implementation corresponding to the at least one telephone network, the method comprising the steps of:
A system for processing event records generated by a telecommunications system, the event records being generated in response to an event occurring in the telecommunications system in accordance with a specific format, the system comprising:
A computer readable product having computer readable instructions for performing a method for processing network event records, the method comprising:
A data processing system comprising:
A data processing method comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.