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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2003
Filed:
May. 22, 2000
Dean C. Marchand, Brighton, CO (US);
Erin C. Jackman, Denver, CO (US);
WorldCom, Inc., Clinton, MS (US);
Abstract
A method and device for suppressing threshold alerts in a telecommunication fraud control system is disclosed. Threshold alerts are generated when the count of a certain category of call exceeds a certain threshold. These counts are maintained in relation to particular accounts. A fraud analyst determines whether or not a particular account will have alert suppression enabled, based on the type of account and its history. Once alert suppression is enabled, the count is multiplied by a coefficient before determining whether to issue a threshold alert. If the multiplied count still exceeds the threshold, an alert is generated. If not, no alert is generated.