Centralized versatile transaction verification

A method for centralized transaction verification, the method comprising:

• maintaining a set of tracked attributes and a set of conditions, each condition providing an indication of whether generally a transaction should be allowed based on at least one of the tracked attributes and an associated value;
• receiving multiple transaction data packets from multiple heterogeneous transaction placement systems, a first transaction data packet of the multiple transaction data packets relating to a first transaction, the first transaction data packet including a first set of attributes;
• normalizing the first transaction data packet by normalizing at least one of the attributes in the first set of attributes based on a formatting of at least one of the tracked attributes;
• analyzing the attributes related to the first transaction with respect to previously received attributes related to other transactions to determine whether any of the attributes of the first transaction fit a pattern;
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• verifying the first transaction by analyzing conditions from the set of conditions that are related to the attributes of the first transaction and further based on the determination of whether the attributes of the first transaction fit a pattern.

A machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by at least one processor of a system for centralized transaction verification, the machine-readable storage medium comprising:

• instructions to maintain a set of tracked attributes and a set of conditions, each condition to provide an indication of whether generally a transaction should be allowed based on at least one of the tracked attributes and an associated value;
• instructions to receive transaction data packets from multiple heterogeneous transaction placement systems, each transaction data packet to relate to a particular transaction and to include any number attributes of any type and any formatting, and each with an associated attribute value;
• instructions to normalize each of the transaction data packets, the normalization to modify attributes associated with the particular transaction data packet based on a formatting of at least one of the tracked attributes;
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• instructions to verify each of the transaction data packets by analyzing a subset of conditions from the set of conditions where the conditions in the subset are related to the attributes associated with the particular transaction data packet.