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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.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2020

Filed:

May. 25, 2012
Applicants:

Gaston L'huillier, Cambridge, MA (US);

Evan Macmillan, Los Altos, CA (US);

Francisco Larrain, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Ricardo Zilleruelo, Mountain View, CA (US);

Sebastian Kreft, San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

Gaston L'Huillier, Cambridge, MA (US);

Evan MacMillan, Los Altos, CA (US);

Francisco Larrain, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Ricardo Zilleruelo, Mountain View, CA (US);

Sebastian Kreft, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

GROUPON, INC., Chicago, IL (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/0204 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0201 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01);
Abstract

The early adopters and potential influencers (EAPI) system, method and computer-readable medium provide a way to identify early adopters and potential influencers. The EAPI system obtains a list of purchases for customers of merchants and/or subscriptions from a transaction tracking system. The EAPI system creates a time-based transaction network, and using a scoring function, the EAPI system determines an early adopter and/or potential influencer ranking among customers in the network. The EAPI system may use one or more customer attributes to determine a customer's influence with respect to different dimensions.


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