Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Micro-geographic aggregation system
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Application No.: US16144230Application Date: 2018-09-27
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Publication No.: US10580025B2Publication Date: 2020-03-03
- Inventor: Andrew John Hickman , Alan Tsang , Yaqi Tao , Shengjun Pan
- Applicant: Experian Information Solutions, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Costa Mesa
- Assignee: Experian Information Solutions, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Experian Information Solutions, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Costa Mesa
- Agency: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP
- Main IPC: G06Q30/02
- IPC: G06Q30/02

Abstract:
The present disclosure describes systems and methods for automatically rolling-up data associated with one or more geographic units, such as ZIP+4 codes, such that the rollup comprises a minimum number of households to protect anonymity and ensure compliance with privacy regulations, while preserving variance of the underlying data associated with the geographic regions. Data attributes may include demographic data, socio-economic data, lifestyle segmentation, psychographic data, behavioral data, credit data, and other data. The rollup process may involve identifying one or more geographic units with a number of households below a minimum or threshold amount, applying filters to find candidate geographic units for rollup, scoring candidate geographic units to select best pairings for rollup, and repeating until the rollup group has at least the minimum number of households. The process may make trades off between granularity (e.g., number of households), proximity, and similarity of data attributes associated with each geographic unit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190095939A1 MICRO-GEOGRAPHIC AGGREGATION SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2019-03-28
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