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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2007
Matthias Blume, San Diego, CA (US);
Bruce D. Harris, San Diego, CA (US);
Matthias Blume, San Diego, CA (US);
Bruce D. Harris, San Diego, CA (US);
Fair Isaac Corporation, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for cardholder localization based on transaction data. In general, a determination of one or more possible base locations of a cardholder of a payment card may be initiated. Transactions of the cardholder may be associated with merchant customer base location profiles, where each of the merchant customer base location profiles models a distribution of base locations of customers with which a merchant has had a transaction. The one or more possible cardholder base locations may be derived from the merchant customer base location profiles. The one or more possible cardholder base locations may be used to determine a home or office location of a cardholder where such information is not otherwise available, to determine whether a cardholder has moved from a stated address, to determine if a cardholder has multiple residences, to detect fraud, and the like.