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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Yea-Jane Chu, Chicago, IL (US);
Sier Han, Xian, CN;
Ning Sun, Beijing, CN;
Chun Hua Tian, Beijing, CN;
Feng Juan Wang, Beijing, CN;
Ming Xie, Beijing, CN;
Chao Zhang, Beijing, CN;
Xiu Fang Zhu, Beijing, CN;
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Embodiments include predicting transactions by an entity and identifying promotions to offer the entity. Aspects include parsing a plurality of event records corresponding to a plurality of entities respectively. Aspects also include identifying a sequence of events corresponding to the entity and discretizing time intervals and event values of the sequence of events into discrete symbolic values. Aspects further include generating a temporal pattern of events in the sequence of events, the temporal pattern including a sequence of transaction-symbols representative of the time interval and the event value of the events in the sequence of events of the entity and predicting a next transaction based on the temporal pattern.