Transaction Handler for Search Data Correlation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current systems fail to effectively integrate transaction data with search data and online activities to provide personalized and targeted advertisements, leading to inefficiencies in advertising ROI and inability to accurately predict consumer behavior.

Innovation Solution

A system that processes transaction data from credit, debit, and prepaid cards to correlate with search data and online activities, using a transaction handler to generate user profiles and provide personalized advertisements, while also automating the processing of advertisement fees and offer redemption across various channels.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If transaction data is integrated with search data and online activities to provide personalized advertisements, then advertising effectiveness and ROI are improved, but system complexity and data processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadvertising effectivenessVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments data processing into distinct modules: transaction data processing, search data processing, online activity tracking, and profile generation. Each module handles specific data types independently before integration, reducing overall system complexity while enabling personalized advertising through combined data insights.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

A profile generator acts as an intermediary component that receives processed transaction data, search data, and online activity data, then synthesizes user profiles that are used for personalized advertisement delivery. This mediator simplifies the integration process by providing a standardized interface between diverse data sources and the advertising system.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Measurement precision

If transaction data from multiple card types is processed to generate user profiles, then personalized offers and consumer behavior prediction are enhanced, but data processing time and computational resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveconsumer behavior prediction accuracyVSAvoiddata processing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary processing of transaction data from credit, debit, and prepaid cards to pre-generate user profiles and behavior patterns. This advance preparation allows the system to quickly retrieve and apply pre-analyzed consumer behavior data during advertising delivery, reducing real-time processing requirements while maintaining high prediction accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Productivity

If automated processing of advertisement fees and offer redemption is implemented across various channels, then operational efficiency is improved, but integration complexity with existing systems increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveoperational efficiencyVSAvoidsystem integration complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements a universal automated processing platform that handles advertisement fees and offer redemption across multiple channels (online, mobile, in-store) through a single integrated interface. This multi-functional system consolidates what would otherwise require separate processing systems for each channel, improving operational efficiency while managing integration complexity through standardization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS11017482B2Systems and methods to enhance search data with transaction based data
Publication Date: 2021.05.25 VISA USA INC
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AI summary

Provided is a system, method, and apparatus for enhancing search data using a search engine and a transaction handler. The method includes processing a plurality of in-person transactions initiated by a plurality of users, correlating a first plurality of searches performed by the plurality of users with the transaction data, processing a plurality of online transactions initiated by at least one user of the plurality of users, correlating at least one search performed by the at least one user that resulted in the search results with the transaction data corresponding to the plurality of online transactions that were based on the search results, and generating a profile for the at least one user based on the correlated data stored in the data warehouse.