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System and method for matching merchants based on consumer spend behavior

  • US 8,255,268 B2
  • Filed: 01/20/2010
  • Issued: 08/28/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/20/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • passively collecting, by a computer-based system for using spend behavior to match merchants, spend level data for a transaction of a first entity;

    aggregating, by the computer-based system, the collected spend level data for a plurality of entities;

    clustering, by the computer-based system, the first entity with a subset of the plurality of entities, based on aggregated spend level data of the first entity; and

    matching, by the computer-based system, a first merchant with a second merchant based on a relationship of first cluster members with the first merchant and a relationship of first cluster members with the second merchant.

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