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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2016
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Roger Douglas Lederman, Briarcliff Manor, NY (US);
Herbert Scott McFaddin, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Chandrasekhar Narayanaswami, Wilton, CT (US);
Assignee:
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/0204 (2013.01); H04L 67/10 (2013.01);
Abstract
A customer segmentation method, system, and computer program product, include inputting a set of characteristic features for each of a plurality of customers, defining a customer-event map that maps the characteristic features of each of the customers to a plurality of event categories, and estimating a likelihood of an event driven purchase for each product type and an event category combination.