| 摘要 |
A method for identifying merchant trade areas for search result filtering includes: storing a plurality of merchant profiles, each profile including data related to a merchant including a merchant identifier and merchant geographic location; storing a plurality of transaction data entries, each entry including data related to a payment transaction including a specific merchant identifier and merchant geographic location associated with a merchant involved in the transaction, a consumer primary geographic location associated with a consumer involved in the transaction, and a travel distance based on a distance between the merchant and consumer primary geographic locations; identifying, for each merchant profile, merchant trade area data, the data including trade distances based on the travel distance included in transaction data entries where the included specific merchant identifier corresponds to the merchant identifier included in the respective merchant profile; and updating merchant profiles to include the respective identified merchant trade area data. |
| 主权项 |
1. A method for identifying merchant trade areas for search result filtering, comprising:
storing, in a merchant database, a plurality of merchant profiles, wherein at least one merchant profile includes data related to a merchant including at least a merchant identifier and merchant geographic location associated with the related merchant; storing, in a transaction database, a plurality of transaction data entries, wherein each transaction data entry includes data related to a payment transaction including at least a specific merchant identifier and merchant geographic location associated with a merchant involved in the related payment transaction, a consumer primary geographic location associated with a consumer involved in the related payment transaction, and a travel distance based on a distance between the merchant geographic location and consumer primary geographic location; identifying, for each merchant profile in the plurality of merchant profiles, merchant trade area data, wherein the merchant trade area data includes at least one trade distance based on the travel distance included in each transaction data entry of the plurality of transaction data entries where the included specific merchant identifier corresponds to the merchant identifier included in the respective merchant profile; updating, in the merchant database, at least one merchant profile to include the respective identified merchant trade area data; and transmitting, by a transmitting device, at least one merchant profile of the plurality of merchant profiles. |
