ANALYZING CONSUMER BEHAVIOR BASED ON LOCATION VISITATION

Patent №

US 10,423,973

Granted

2019-09-24

Filed 2016

Owner

PLACEIQ, INC.

Lab

AI components

4

ml · kr · planning · evo

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

15146605

Provided is a process, including: obtaining geolocations histories of computing devices; assigning different subsets of the location histories to different computing devices in a compute cluster; querying a geographic information system (GIS) with geolocations in the geolocations histories to obtain identifiers of chain retail establishments; determining visit graphs for the individuals; and determining, for a given retail chain and a given individual, a score indicative of an affinity of the given individual to the given retail chain based on the visit graphs for more than 100 individuals including the given individual.

AI classification

Planning0.96
Evolutionary computation0.95
Machine learning0.90
Knowledge representation0.62
Speech0.01
Vision0.00
AI hardware0.00
Natural language0.00

Ownership

PLACEIQ, INC.

assignment · 397030621

Assignors

MILTON, STEPHEN, MCCALL, DUNCAN

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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