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Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2020

Filed:

Jun. 23, 2015
Applicant:

Square, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

Matthew R. George, San Francisco, CA (US);

Jonathan Steven Landy, Berkeley, CA (US);

John Berian James, San Francisco, CA (US);

Mehmet Zahit Guneri, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

James A. Esposito, Brooklyn, NY (US);

Drew A. Edmond, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Square, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 40/00 (2012.01); G06Q 20/20 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 40/12 (2013.12); G06Q 20/202 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques and arrangements for industry vertical classification of merchants using merchant signals, based, in part, on comparing the merchant signals with collected business class profiles. The merchant signals can include reported data, collected data, and third-party data associated with the merchant. The techniques can include identifying one or more business class profiles using the data associated with the merchant and classifying and/or reclassifying the merchant within a business class using the one or more identified business class profiles.


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