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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2017
Square, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Roger Reyelts, Marietta, GA (US);
Travis Schmeisser, San Francisco, CA (US);
John Joseph LaBanca, Jr., Dunwoody, GA (US);
Cynthia Lobb, Marietta, GA (US);
Square, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
This disclosure describes, in part, techniques for analyzing and updating merchants' data structures. For instance, a payment service may store data structures associated with merchants, where each data structure indicates items that a respective merchant offers for acquisition. The payment service may then analyze at least a first data structure to determine first items offered for acquisition by a first merchant and a second data structure to determine second items offered for acquisition by a second merchant. Based on the first items and the second items, the payment service may determine an item to recommend to the second merchant. The payment service may then generate and send a message to a merchant device of the second merchant, where the message recommends that the second merchant offer the item for acquisition. In some instances, the first merchant and the second merchant are each associated with a specific type of business.