Patent ID: 11900475
Assignee: AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 10:
11. An apparatus, comprising:
at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing computer readable instructions;
at least one electronic processor configured to read and execute the computer readable instructions from the at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium, the computer readable instructions configured to, when executed, cause the at least one electronic processor to:
access a database of financial transaction data for a plurality of users;
process the financial transaction data into features for a plurality of vendor classifications, wherein the processing comprises generating a set of feature vectors for each vendor classification among the plurality of vendor classifications via execution of a local feature selection algorithm;
train a neural network utilizing the features for the plurality of vendor classifications;
retrieve financial transaction data for a particular user;
identify classifications of the particular user, the identify is performed by the neural network;
display the classifications of the particular user and receiving feedback from the particular user; and
further training the neural network using the feedback.