MERCHANT RECOMMENDATION ENGINE METHOD AND APPARATUS

摘要

A system, method, and computer-readable storage medium configured to enable vendor recommendations using payment card transaction information.

主权项

1. A recommendation method comprising:
extracting financial transaction entries from a database stored on a computer-readable storage medium; filtering, with a processor, the financial transaction entries based on an application domain to produce domain-filtered financial transaction entries; filtering, with the processor, the domain-filtered financial transaction entries based on a geographic location of each domain-filtered financial transaction entry to produce geographically-filtered financial transaction entries; computing, with the processor, similarities between geographically-filtered financial transaction entries from multiple cardholders to produce recommendations; storing the recommendations in the database.