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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2017
Arctic Alliance Europe Oy, Turku, FI;
Jari Majaniemi, Turku, FI;
Artic Alliance Europe Oy, Turku, FI;
Abstract
A system for detecting a conflict of interest between entities includes a server and a database. The server defines categories and stores information at the database arrangement. A category to be evaluated is selected for detecting whether or not two given entities have a conflict of interest. A tree structure is created with the category and child and descendent categories of the category. The category and the child and descendent categories are hierarchically arranged as nodes of the tree structure. For the two given entities a conflict potential value is computed for each node of the tree structure. A conflict index value based upon the conflict potential value of that node for each of the two given entities is computed. A conflict of interest between the two given entities is detected if the conflict index value (c) of a node of the tree structure matches at least one predefined criterion.