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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2022
Bytedance Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Andrew Lisy, River Forest, IL (US);
Becky Nixon Center, Chicago, IL (US);
Yingchu Zheng, Chicago, IL (US);
Eric Hanson, Western Springs, IL (US);
BYTEDANCE INC., Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus, and computer program, each configured for determining a travel propensity, the travel propensity being a distance a customer is willing to travel to redeem a renderable data object, are provided An exemplary method comprises classifying each of a plurality of geographic regions as one geographic region type of a plurality of geographic region types, mapping each of a plurality of redemption locations to a geographic region type, calculating, for a first geographic region type, a first distance that accounts for a predefined number of redemptions, determining a number of merchants having redemption locations within the first distance, calculating a second distance, from a center of a geographic region of the second geographic region type, necessary to include the number of merchants having redemption locations within the first distance, and assigning the second distance as the second geographic region type travel propensity.