System and method for determining congestion using point of sale authorization data
AssigneeMastercard International Incorporated
InventorPeter GROARKE
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Abstract
A system and a method for determining at least one of vehicle and pedestrian congestion at locations, comprising an electronic storage device having a database of merchant transactions stored therein; an access path for allowing access to information concerning the transactions, including when point of sale transactions have taken place, and a processor for assembling the information concerning point of sale transactions, to provide an indication of at least one of vehicle and pedestrian congestion. A computer readable non-transitory storage medium stores instructions of a computer program which when executed by a computer system, results in performance of steps of the method for determining at least one of vehicle and pedestrian congestion.
Claims24
A system for determining at least one of vehicle and pedestrian congestion at locations, comprising:
- an electronic storage device having a database of merchant transactions stored therein;
- an access path for allowing access to information concerning the transactions, including when point of sale transactions have taken place, and
- a processor for assembling the information concerning point of sale transactions, to provide an indication of at least one of vehicle and pedestrian congestion.
A method for determining at least one of vehicle and pedestrian congestion at locations, comprising:
- storing in an electronic storage device a database of merchant transactions;
- accessing information in the database concerning the transactions, and
- assembling the information to provide an indication of at least one of vehicle and pedestrian congestion.
A computer readable non-transitory storage medium storing instructions of a computer program which when executed by a computer system results in performance of steps of a method for determining regions of at least one of vehicle and pedestrian congestion, comprising:
- storing in an electronic storage device a database of merchant transactions;
- accessing information in the database concerning the transactions, and
- assembling the information to provide an indication of at least one of vehicle and pedestrian congestion at a given region.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.