US 8,505,811 B2Granted

Anomalous billing event correlation engine

AssigneeBank of America Corporation

InventorsChristopher B. Pulley, Michael T. deLaveaga

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Abstract

Apparatus, methods and computer readable media for processing invoice data. The apparatus may include, and the methods and media may involve a processor module and a machine memory module. The processor module may extract from an invoice a billing event identifier that identifies a billing event. The processor module may query an index in the machine memory module for a billing event descriptor that is designated for the billing event. The processor module may identify in the machine memory index a provisional billing event descriptor that corresponds to a derivative of the billing event identifier. The processor module may join the provisional billing event descriptor to a record corresponding to the billing event identifier. The processor module may flag the record to indicate the presence of the provisional billing event descriptor.

Claims18

Dependent claims

Apparatus for processing invoice data, the apparatus comprising:

a processor module;
and
a machine memory module;
wherein:
the processor module includes hardware that is configured to:
extract from an invoice a billing event identifier that identifies a billing event;
query an index in the machine memory module for a billing event descriptor that is designated for the billing event;
when a result of the query includes the billing event descriptor, join the billing event descriptor to a record corresponding to the billing event descriptor;
and
when the result of the query is null:
formulate a billing event identifier derivative;
identify in the index a provisional billing event descriptor that corresponds to the billing event identifier derivative;
join the provisional billing event descriptor to the record corresponding to the billing event identifier;
and
set a flag in the record to indicate a presence of the provisional billing event descriptor.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.