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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2018
Filed:
May. 30, 2013
Wal-mart Stores, Inc., Bentonville, AR (US);
Afroza Ali, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Kannan Achan, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ron Benson, San Francisco, CA (US);
WALMART APOLLO, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US);
Abstract
Example systems and methods for clustering of customers using patterns in their transactions are described. In one implementation, a method receives customer information that includes at least a plurality of customer identifications and a plurality of payment options associated with a plurality of customers. The method identifies a subset of payment options, from among the payment options, and a subset of customer identifications, from among the customer identifications, such that each payment option of the subset of payment options is associated with more than one customer identification of the subset of customer identifications. The method then classifies each customer identification of the subset of customer identifications as either of one of more than one of the customer identifications associated with a single one of the customers or one of more than one of the customer identifications associated with more than one of the customers who are related to each other.