International Business Machines Corporation

Edgar Leroy Murphy, Jr

Shiping Liu

James R Kraemer

Michael J Rothman

David W Nanek

Initially the amount of data is checked to determine whether a sufficient history is present for the method. Credit card accounts are classified as new, relatively new, and old cards, i.e. opened within six months, within twelve months, and over twelve months ago. The balances for each of the three categories are calculated for each month. The average balance percentages of cards opened within six months and twelve months for the last twenty-four months is calculated and teaser surfers are defined as either having average percentages within the last twenty-four months for all credit cards opened within six and twelve months are greater than predefined percentages.

Identifying teaser surfers with time series credit history

Method and system for identifying teaser surfers with time series credit history

Initially, customer time series credit files are acquired. The credit files are organized in a data mart environment for supporting a query system. Time series utilization attributes are created and a neural network time series segmentation process is applied and N&times;N dimension segments are generated for analysis. The chart may be modified to more accurately depict profitable credit revolvers. Credit data from each potential new customer is processed in a similar fashion by the neural network segmentation process. Profitable credit revolvers are identified by having credit utilization patterns belonging to profitable segments previously identified.

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Southlake, TX, United States of America

Edgar Leroy Murphy, Jr