Patent application number | Description | Published |
20150066743 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SOCIALLY CONNECTING PAYMENT CARD HOLDERS - A method for socially connecting payment card holders is provided. The method involves providing one or more databases configured to store payment card holder information including at least purchasing and payment activities attributable to the payment card holders; providing one or more databases configured to store payment card holder profiles; generating the payment card holder profiles based on the payment card holder information; providing the payment card holder profiles to payment card holders that have been granted access to the one or more databases configured to store the payment card holder profiles; and effecting targeted interaction between the payment card holders based at least in part on the payment card holder profiles. A system for socially connecting payment card holders is also provided. | 03-05-2015 |
20150081432 | TARGETED VENDOR OFFERS FOR TRAVELERS - A system, method, and computer-readable storage medium target payment cardholders with offers based on their propensity to travel. | 03-19-2015 |
20150149253 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTEGRATING DEVICE DATA WITH TRANSACTION DATA - A method for linking device data to transaction history includes: storing a plurality of consumer profiles, wherein each consumer profile includes data related to a consumer including at least a plurality of consumer characteristics and a plurality of transaction data entries, each transaction data entry corresponding to a payment transaction involving the related consumer; receiving, by a receiving device, a device profile, wherein the device profile includes device data corresponding to a consumer device and a plurality of demographic characteristics associated with a consumer associated with the corresponding consumer device; identifying, by a processing device, at least one consumer profile of the plurality of consumer profiles where at least a predefined number of the included plurality of consumer characteristics correspond to the plurality of demographic characteristics; and associating each of the identified at least one consumer profile with the device data included in the received device profile. | 05-28-2015 |
20150242869 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LINKING TRANSACTION DATA WITH EVENTS - A method for performing analytics processing in order to determine economic impact of an event on a particular market includes: receiving event information from an event storage unit, the event information including event data associated with an event and a venue in which the associated event occurred; receiving payment transaction information from a transaction storage unit, the payment transaction information including transaction data associated with each of a plurality of payment transactions; identifying a particular event and a particular venue associated with event data included in the received event information; identifying transaction data for payment transactions that occurred within a particular time frame of the particular event and within a specified area of a location of the selected event from the received payment transaction information; and determining an economic impact of the particular event on a particular market based on the identified transaction data. | 08-27-2015 |
20150287020 | INFERRING CARDHOLDER FROM KNOWN LOCATIONS - A method includes receiving a first data set and accessing a second data set. The first data set includes location and time profiles. The second data set includes transaction profiles. The first and second data sets are analyzed to propose matches of location and time profiles with transaction profiles. A respective score is assigned to each proposed match. In the analysis and assignment of scores, a first percentage is assigned to each location and time profile relative to each transaction profile. The first percentage equals a percentage of data elements in the location and time profile that is represented in the respective transaction profile. For some of the transaction profiles, a second percentage is assigned. The second percentage equals the percentage of transactions in the transaction profile that is represented in a proposed matching location and time profile. | 10-08-2015 |
20150317654 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LINKING TRAFFIC DATA TO PURCHASE BEHAVIOR - A method for linking traffic data to transaction data includes: storing a plurality of transaction data entries, each entry including data related to a payment transaction including at least a geographic location associated with the related payment transaction, a transaction time and/or date, and transaction data; receiving traffic data, the traffic data being related to vehicle traffic and including at least a geographic traffic area, a period of time, and one or more traffic characteristics associated with the vehicle traffic; identifying a subset of transaction data entries where each entry in the subset includes a geographic location included in a geographic transaction area corresponding to the geographic traffic area and a transaction time and/or date included in the period of time; and identifying an economic impact of the vehicle traffic based on at least the transaction data included in each of the transaction data entries included in the identified subset. | 11-05-2015 |
20150339708 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PERFORMING THIRD PARTY TRANSACTIONS - Methods and systems of performing multi-party transactions through a single authorization and multiple settlements is disclosed. The transaction involves a consumer entering into primary and secondary transactions as a single transaction for a merchant's and third party's products, wherein the third party products are not located at the merchant's establishment. Additionally, third party merchant offers may be filtered depending on information pertaining to the consumer. | 11-26-2015 |
20150348028 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANDATED SERVICES VERIFICATION - A method and system for verifying cardholder compliance or non-compliance with a mandated services requirement by a third party using a payment card payment card network coupled to a database are provided. The method includes receiving sets of predetermined parameters that each define a transaction for one or more mandated services, receiving, by the computer device, transaction data for a plurality of transactions, determining, by the computer device, transactions for one or more mandated services from the plurality of received transactions using the received sets of parameters, summarizing the transaction data from the determined transactions, and transmitting the summarized transaction data to the third party, the summarized transaction data demonstrating cardholder compliance or noncompliance with the mandated services requirement. | 12-03-2015 |
20150348037 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPROVED FRAUD SCORING BASED ON CRIMINAL ACTIVITY - A method for improving fraud scoring based on criminal activity includes: storing transaction data entries, each including transaction data related to a payment transaction and a transacting consumer identifier; storing consumer profiles, each including data related to consumers including consumer characteristics and a consumer identifier; storing fraud scoring rules, each being configured to score a payment transaction for a likelihood of fraud based on transaction data; receiving a criminal activity notification, the notification including criminal characteristics associated with criminals or victims associated with untrustworthiness or fraud; identifying a specific consumer profile where a predefined number of the consumer characteristics correspond to the criminal characteristics; identifying a subset of transaction data entries where the transacting consumer identifier corresponds to the consumer identifier in the specific consumer profile; and updating the fraud scoring rules based on the transaction data included in each transaction data entry in the subset. | 12-03-2015 |
20150348072 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELECTING A TARGET AUDIENCE - A method and a system are provided for selecting an audience of potential acceptors for receiving a targeted communication and for making a targeted communication to an audience of potential acceptors. The method involves retrieving, from one or more databases, a first set of information including checking account activities and characteristics attributable to an audience of checking account customers. At least a portion of the audience of checking account customers are identifiably associated with an audience of payment card holders. The method also involves retrieving, from one or more databases, a second set of information including payment card activities and characteristics attributable to the audience of payment card holders. Payment card holders meeting selection criteria are identified based on the first set of information and the second set of information. Payment card holders meeting the selection criteria are selected for receiving a targeted communication (e.g., a payment card upgrade). | 12-03-2015 |
20150348209 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LINKING FORENSIC DATA WITH PURCHASE BEHAVIOR - A method for linking forensic data to transaction history includes: storing a plurality of consumer profiles, each profile including data related to a consumer including a consumer identifier associated with the related consumer and a plurality of transaction data entries, each entry including data related to a payment transaction involving the consumer including transaction data; receiving a forensic profile, the profile including forensic data obtained from a computing device; identifying a correspondence between the received forensic data and transaction data included in the stored transaction data entries to obtain a specific consumer identifier; identifying a specific consumer profile where the included consumer identifier corresponds to the specific consumer identifier; and transmitting at least the transaction data included in one or more transaction data entries included in the identified specific consumer profile. | 12-03-2015 |
20150348219 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LINKING LAW ENFORCEMENT DATA TO PURCHASE BEHAVIOR - A method for linking law enforcement data to transaction data includes: storing a plurality of transaction data entries, each entry including data related to a payment transaction including a geographic location associated with the related transaction, a transaction time and/or date, and transaction data; receiving law enforcement data, the data being related to criminal and law enforcement activity and including a geographic enforcement area, a period of time, and one or more law enforcement characteristics associated with the activity; identifying a subset of transaction data entries where each entry in the subset includes a geographic location included in a geographic transaction area corresponding to the geographic enforcement area and a transaction time and/or date included in the period of time; and identifying an economic impact of the criminal and law enforcement activity based on the transaction data included in the transaction data entries included in the identified subset. | 12-03-2015 |