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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2023
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2020
Groupon, Inc., Chicago, IL (US);
Gaston L'Huillier, Cambridge, MA (US);
Evan MacMillan, Los Altos, CA (US);
Francisco Larrain, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ricardo Zilleruelo, Mountain View, CA (US);
Sebastian Kreft, San Francisco, CA (US);
GROUPON, INC., Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
Various methods are provided for determining transactional networks using transactional data. One example method may comprise receiving a set of transactional data associated each of a plurality of customers, the set of the transactional data comprising a plurality of ordered lists of elements, each ordered list of elements defining a transaction of a plurality of transactions, the ordered list of elements comprising information identifying a particular customer from the plurality of customers, a merchant, and a timestamp, for each particular customer from the plurality of customers, generating a network, each generated network comprising one or more merchant nodes, a plurality of customer nodes, one or more merchant-customer edges between at least one of the one or more merchant nodes and at least one of the plurality of customer nodes, and one or more customer-customer edges between two or more customer nodes.