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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2018
Visa International Service Association, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michelle Eng Winters, Belmont, CA (US);
Vipul Bahety, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Kevin Akerman, Orinda, CA (US);
Visa International Service Association, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A computing apparatus includes: a transaction handler configured to process transactions in a payment processing network; a data warehouse configured to store transaction data recording the transactions processed at the transaction handler; a profile generator configured to generate, based on the transaction data, a profile including business activity data configured to identify a time period of active business, and a portal configured to communicate with a search engine to enhance search results using the business activity data.