Brand abuse monitoring system with infringement deteciton engine and graphical user interface

A computer-based system connected via a communications network to a remote user device and a plurality of services, the system comprising:

• a data collection engine comprising:
• an input adapted to receive a set of collection data from a set of services, the set of collection data comprising a set of brand data for comparison against a control set of data stored in a database and having a set of fields and via the digital communications network a query;
• an entity identification module adapted to identify and extract within the set of collection data a set of entity data, compare the set of entity data against a set of entity control data to resolve entity identification, associate an entity identifier with the identified entity, and determine a set of relationship data between entities;
• a matching module adapted to receive data derived from the set of collection data and compare the received data against a set of known brand data and generate a set of comparison data and an output indicating a presence of a match;
• a scoring module adapted to generate a set of score data based on the set of comparison data;
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• a graphic user interface adapted to present a graphic representation of the set of scored data on a display device associated with the remote user device.