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Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2020

Filed:

Jan. 27, 2017
Applicant:

Wal-mart Stores, Inc., Bentonville, AR (US);

Inventors:

Wei Shen, Danville, CA (US);

Lu Wang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Zhao Zhao, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

WALMART APOLLO LLLC, Bentonville, AR (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); G06N 5/04 (2006.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/0201 (2013.01); G06N 5/04 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06Q 30/0277 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods including one or more processing modules and one or more non-transitory storage modules storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processing modules and perform acts of: categorizing a plurality of customers based on whether or not each customer of the plurality of customers had (1) an online store transaction with a retailer, (2) an offline store transaction with the retailer, or (3) an online interaction with the retailer within a predetermined period of time; predicting, using a lifetime value (LTV) update model, a LTV for customers who did have an interaction or transaction with the retailer; predicting, using one or more LTV decay functions, the LTV for customers who did not have an interaction or transaction with the retailer; and determining an online advertisement for each customer based on the LTV for each customer.


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