Patent ID: 11947526
Assignee: VISA INTERNATIONAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 9:
10. A system comprising:
a data storage device comprising a transaction database of a transaction processing system, the transaction database comprising transaction data for a plurality of payment transactions processed in an electronic payment processing network between a plurality of merchants and a plurality of consumers, each payment transaction associated with an account identifier, a merchant system, and an issuer system; and
at least one processor programmed or configured to:
receive, from at least one of an issuer system and a merchant system in the electronic payment processing network, a request for a plurality of analytics for a segment of the plurality of consumers;
generate a request file based on the request for the plurality of analytics, the request file comprising:
a request definition object comprising at least one data structure including a plurality of metadata fields;
a query object representing a plurality of separate queries corresponding to the plurality of analytics; and
a segment object identifying at least one segment file external to the request file, the at least one segment file comprising a list of external user identifiers;

transmit the request file to a query system;
transmit the at least one external segment file to the query system separate from the request file; and
receive, from the query system, a response file structured based on the request definition object and comprising a set of transaction data from the transaction database.