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Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2019

Filed:

Nov. 11, 2016
Applicant:

Mastercard International Incorporated, Purchase, NY (US);

Inventors:

Curtis Villars, Chatham, NJ (US);

Todd Christian Lowenberg, Redding, CT (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); G06Q 10/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/0201 (2013.01); G06Q 10/00 (2013.01); G06Q 30/02 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0269 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0204 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for generating microsegments includes retrieving a first set of information including activities attributable to a first plurality of entities and first entity identifiers; retrieving a second set of information including characteristics attributable to the first plurality of entities and second entity identifiers; combining the first and second sets of information using the first and second entity identifiers to obtain a combined set of information, the combined set of information not including personally identifiable information; generating a plurality of microsegments based on selected activities and/or characteristics criteria from the combined set of information; receiving a third set of information including characteristics attributable to a second plurality of entities; and matching characteristics in respective microsegments to characteristics of entities in the second plurality of entities to identify an audience of entities that have a propensity to carry out certain activities based on the selected activities and/or characteristics.


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