Location based discovery of real-time merchant device activity
First Claim
1. A system, comprising:
- one or more servers including;
communication circuitry configured to communicate with consumer devices and merchant devices via a network, wherein the merchant devices are associated with a plurality of merchant locations; and
processing circuitry configured to;
receive, via the network, transaction data from the merchant devices;
determine an activity level score for each of the plurality of merchant locations based on the transaction data;
receive, via the network and from a consumer device, consumer device location data indicating a consumer device location of the consumer device;
determine, at least in part by comparing the consumer device location and the plurality of merchant locations, a local merchant location subset proximate to the consumer device location;
determine, at least in part by comparing the activity level score for each local merchant location of the local merchant location subset, a relative activity level score for each local merchant location of the local merchant locations;
generate a consumer interface including an ambient map display, wherein the ambient map display comprises a local merchant location indicator set associated with the local merchant location subset, and wherein at least one local merchant location indicator of the local merchant location indicator set is visually enhanced based on the relative activity level score for the local merchant location of the local merchant location indicator set; and
provide the consumer interface to the consumer device via the network.
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Abstract
Systems, apparatus, methods, and non-transitory media for consumer interfaces including ambient map displays are discussed herein. Some embodiments may include a system with one or more servers. The one or more servers may be configured to generate a consumer interface including an ambient map display with a graphical representation of a map. The ambient map display may further include merchant location indicators within the map. The merchant location indicators may indicate the activity level for merchant locations that are determined to be near a consumer device, such as through a variable blink rate or other indicator. The activity level may represent, for example, the number of consumers at a particular venue or the rate of a particular consumer activity, such as transaction activity. The system may be configured to provide real-time merchant data to consumer device based on tracking the consumer device location.
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25 Claims
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1. A system, comprising:
one or more servers including; communication circuitry configured to communicate with consumer devices and merchant devices via a network, wherein the merchant devices are associated with a plurality of merchant locations; and processing circuitry configured to; receive, via the network, transaction data from the merchant devices; determine an activity level score for each of the plurality of merchant locations based on the transaction data; receive, via the network and from a consumer device, consumer device location data indicating a consumer device location of the consumer device; determine, at least in part by comparing the consumer device location and the plurality of merchant locations, a local merchant location subset proximate to the consumer device location; determine, at least in part by comparing the activity level score for each local merchant location of the local merchant location subset, a relative activity level score for each local merchant location of the local merchant locations; generate a consumer interface including an ambient map display, wherein the ambient map display comprises a local merchant location indicator set associated with the local merchant location subset, and wherein at least one local merchant location indicator of the local merchant location indicator set is visually enhanced based on the relative activity level score for the local merchant location of the local merchant location indicator set; and provide the consumer interface to the consumer device via the network. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A machine-implemented method, comprising:
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receiving, by processing circuitry of one or more servers connected with merchant devices and consumer devices via a network, transaction data from the merchant devices, wherein the merchant devices are associated with a plurality of merchant locations; determining, by the processing circuitry, an activity level score for each of the plurality of merchant locations based on the transaction data; receiving, by the processing circuitry via the network and from a consumer device, consumer device location data indicating a consumer device location of the consumer device; determining, by the processing circuitry and at least in part by comparing the consumer device location and the plurality of merchant locations, a local merchant location subset proximate to the consumer device location; determining, by the processing circuitry and at least in part by comparing the activity level score for each local merchant location of the local merchant location subset, a relative activity score for each local merchant location of the local merchant locations; generating, by the processing circuitry a consumer interface including an ambient map display, wherein the ambient map display comprises a local merchant location indicator set associated with the local merchant location subset, and wherein at least one local merchant location indicator of the local merchant location indicator set is visually enhanced based on the relative activity level score for the local merchant location of the local merchant location indicator set; and providing, by the processing circuitry, the consumer interface to the consumer device via the network. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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