Patent Document ID: 9652767
Application ID: 15254285

Base Claim:
1. A method for maintaining consumer privacy in consumer analytics, comprising: storing, in a memory of a first computing system, a plurality of account identifiers, wherein each account identifier is associated with a payment account corresponding to a consumer; receiving, by a receiver of the first computing system, transmitted data, wherein the transmitted data includes at least a consumer analytics request and a data file including at least a plurality of first encrypted account identifiers, wherein each first encrypted account identifier is encrypted using a first one-way encryption and is associated with a payment account corresponding to a consumer, and further including, for each first encrypted account identifier, a set of consumer characteristics associated with the consumer corresponding to the associated payment account; disguising, by a processor of the first computing system, each set of consumer characteristics included in the received data file such that the respective set of consumer characteristics is not personally identifiable; mapping, in the memory of the first computing system, each of the plurality of first encrypted account identifiers and corresponding disguised set of consumer characteristics to an account identifier of the plurality of account identifiers; and transmitting, by a transmitter of the first computing system, at least each account identifier and mapped first encrypted account identifier and corresponding disguised set of consumer characteristics to a second computing system.

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Claim 4:
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the set of consumer characteristics includes variables and values, and disguising each set of consumer characteristics includes disguising at least the included variables.