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Network analytics systems and methods

  • US 8,781,874 B2
  • Filed: 02/29/2012
  • Issued: 07/15/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/12/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for market reporting according to point-of-sale (POS) data, the system comprising:

  • an aggregation subsystem, communicatively coupled with a POS network comprising a plurality of POS terminals, and configured to aggregate POS datasets from the plurality of POS terminals in the POS network, each POS terminal being disposed at a merchant associated with terminal data indicating at least one merchant classifier, and each POS terminal being configured to collect transaction data as a function of transactions effectuated via the POS terminal, wherein the transaction data comprises a time of the transaction, an amount of the transaction and an account identifier used to pay for the transaction, and each transaction being routed over one of a plurality of payment networks, each payment network being associated with payment network data, the POS dataset for each of the POS terminals comprising the terminal data, the payment network data and the transaction data;

    a data storage subsystem, communicatively coupled with the aggregation subsystem and configured to store the aggregated POS data from the plurality of POS terminals in the POS network;

    a trend processing subsystem, communicatively coupled with the POS data store, and configured to generate a market trend for a designated payment type over a timeframe by;

    identifying a payment type dataset from the aggregated POS data, the payment type dataset comprising the POS datasets corresponding to the timeframe and to transactions categorized by payment type; and

    generating the market trend as a function of the payment type dataset; and

    a reporting subsystem, communicatively coupled with the trend processing subsystem, and configured to output graphical report data as a function of the market trend generated by the trend processing system, the graphical report data configured to be displayed on a user device.

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