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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2017
Mastercard International Incorporated, Purchase, NY (US);
Andrew J. Smith, St. Louis, MO (US);
Saravana Perumal Shanmugam, Fremont, CA (US);
Adam Kenneth Hosp, Lake St. Louis, MO (US);
Ted P. Sanders, Jr., Chesterfield, MO (US);
Michael K. Forbis, St. Louis, MO (US);
Sarala Buradagunta, West Orange, NJ (US);
MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED, Purchase, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and system are described that provide responses to natural language queries regarding the performance of a business. The method and system provide for crowd-sourced data to determine natural language query suggestions to transmit to a user, based upon previously submitted questions of the user and/or similar merchants to the user. Natural language query suggestions may be provided as utterances to a keyboard of a merchant user. The merchant user may select one or more suggestions provided. The use of natural language queries and responses allows a merchant without a business intelligence background to obtain business insights easily and accurately assess his performance (e.g., against similar merchants, etc.) without personally identifiable or confidential information of other merchants being compromised.