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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2013
Applicant:
Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Houston, TX (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01D 4/00 (2006.01); G06Q 10/06 (2012.01); G06Q 50/06 (2012.01); G06Q 20/40 (2012.01); G01R 22/06 (2006.01); G01R 19/25 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01D 4/002 (2013.01); G01D 4/00 (2013.01); G01R 22/066 (2013.01); G06Q 10/0635 (2013.01); G06Q 20/4016 (2013.01); G06Q 50/06 (2013.01); G01R 19/2513 (2013.01);
Abstract
Detecting fraud in resource distribution systems includes determining a meter of a resource in a resource distribution system exhibits a characteristic indicative of fraud and increasing a collection frequency of measurements of a usage of the resource of the meter per unit of time.