US 2014/0156388 A1Published application

Tracking deal provider performance

AssigneeVisa International Service Association

InventorMichelle Winters

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Abstract

The examples described herein establish metrics for monitoring the performance of deal provider websites. In one example, an apparatus processes a first plurality of payment requests received from at least one of a plurality of deal providers and generates a first plurality of transaction data records storing the transaction data and payment numbers. The apparatus associates a merchant providing a particular one of the deals with each of the first plurality of transaction data records, and processes a second plurality of payment requests received from at least one of the merchants and including at least one of the payment numbers. The apparatus generates a second plurality of transaction data records storing transaction data from each of the second plurality of payment requests. The apparatus filters the second plurality of transaction data records based on a category filter and generates a deal provider metric.

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Dependent claims

An apparatus comprising:

at least one processor;
and
at least one memory storing computer executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to perform:
processing a first plurality of payment requests received from at least one of a plurality of deal providers, wherein each of the requests comprises transaction data associated with a deal listed by one of the deal providers and a payment number associated with a customer;
generating a first plurality of transaction data records storing the transaction data and the payment numbers;
associating, with each of the first plurality of transaction data records, a merchant providing a particular one of the deals via a particular one of the deal providers;
processing a second plurality of payment requests received from at least one of the merchants and including at least one of the payment numbers;
generating a second plurality of transaction data records storing transaction data from each of the second plurality of payment requests;
filtering the second plurality of transaction data records based on a category filter;
and
generating a metric for at least one of the deal providers based on transaction data obtained from the filtered second plurality of transaction data records.

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An apparatus comprising:

means for processing a first plurality of payment requests received from at least one of a plurality of deal providers, wherein each of the requests comprises transaction data associated with a deal listed by one of the deal providers and a payment number associated with a customer;
means for generating a first plurality of transaction data records storing the transaction data and the payment numbers;
means for associating, with each of the first plurality of transaction data records, a merchant providing a particular one of the deals via a particular one of the deal providers;
means for processing a second plurality of payment requests received from at least one of the merchants and including at least one of the payment numbers;
means for generating a second plurality of transaction data records storing transaction data from each of the second plurality of payment requests;
means for filtering the second plurality of transaction data records based on a category filter;
and
means for generating a metric for at least one of the deal providers based on transaction data obtained from the filtered second plurality of transaction data records.

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A computer-implemented method comprising:

processing, by at least one specifically programmed processor, a first plurality of payment requests received from at least one of a plurality of deal providers, wherein each of the requests comprises transaction data associated with a deal listed by one of the deal providers and a payment number associated with a customer;
generating, by the at least one specifically programmed processor, a first plurality of transaction data records storing the transaction data and the payment numbers;
associating, with each of the first plurality of transaction data records, by the at least one specifically programmed processor, a merchant providing a particular one of the deals via a particular one of the deal providers;
processing, by the at least one specifically programmed processor, a second plurality of payment requests received from at least one of the merchants and including at least one of the payment numbers;
generating, by the at least one specifically programmed processor, a second plurality of transaction data records storing transaction data from each of the second plurality of payment requests;
filtering, by the at least one specifically programmed processor, the second plurality of transaction data records based on a category filter;
and
generating, by the at least one specifically programmed processor, a metric for at least one of the deal providers based on transaction data obtained from the filtered second plurality of transaction data records.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.