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Predicting orders from buyer behavior

  • US 10,410,272 B1
  • Filed: 08/20/2014
  • Issued: 09/10/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/20/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system comprising:

  • a service provider having one or more processors configured to communicate with a user device associated with a buyer and one or more merchant point of sale (POS) devices; and

    one or more computer-readable media storing instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to;

    receive, from the one or more merchant POS devices, transaction information corresponding to one or more POS transactions conducted by the buyer at one or more merchant locations associated with the one or more merchant POS devices, wherein the transaction information includes buyer identifying information that identifies the buyer and item purchase information that identifies at least one item purchased by the buyer during each of the POS transactions as well as a time and day of a week of purchase of the at least one item;

    associate the transaction information with a buyer profile of the buyer;

    identify, based at least in part on the buyer identifying information and the item purchase information associated with the buyer profile, a set of additional buyer profiles of similar buyers other than the buyer that share a characteristic with the buyer, the shared characteristic based on similarity in at least one of buying patterns or demographic information;

    generate a confidence rating for a particular item based at least in part on the item purchase information included in the buyer profile and on one or more transactions corresponding to the profiles of the similar buyers, the confidence rating indicating a probability of the buyer regularly purchasing the particular item;

    identify that the confidence rating exceeds a first threshold level;

    receive a geographical location of the user device from the user device, the user device having identified the geographical location based on a positioning component of the user device;

    identify a merchant with which to place an order for the particular item based at least in part on the confidence rating exceeding the first threshold level and the geographical location of the user device;

    send, to the user device, a message including an offer to place the order for the particular item with the identified merchant;

    receive, from the user device, an indication of acceptance of the offer to order for the particular item; and

    upon receipt of the indication of acceptance of the offer and prior to the buyer arriving at a location corresponding to the identified merchant, automatically send a request to purchase the particular item on behalf of the buyer to a defined merchant POS device associated with the identified merchant.

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