Abstract: Systems and methods systems are provided for determining the impact of public relations (PR) events on consumer spending. Past PR event information can be identified, and codes characterizing the past PR event information can be applied to standardize and categorize the PR events. The codified past PR event information may then be correlated with transaction data associated with a business or other entity to which the past PR event information is applicable, and one or more factors can be calculated based on the codified past PR event information and transaction data to quantify the impact or influence of the past PR events on past spending behavior. These one or more factors can in turn be applied to new or subsequent PR event information to predict the impact of such new or subsequent PR events on future spending.

Abstract: A method for tracking existence and spread of infectious diseases using transaction data includes: storing transaction data entries, each entry including data related to a payment transaction including a transaction time, geographic location, and transaction data; receiving disease data indicating an infectious disease in a geographic area, the data including an infection period of time; identifying a first subset of transaction data entries including the geographic location in the received disease data and where the transaction time is within the infection period of time; identifying a second subset of transaction data entries that include a geographic location in a shared geographic area where the included transaction data corresponds to the transaction data included in the transaction data entries in the first subset; and transmitting an infection notification, the notification including at least the shared geographic area.

Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable storage medium configured to reduce the computational burden of commercial enterprises supplying bulk payment fees.

Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable storage medium configured to reduce the computational burden of commercial enterprises supplying sliding scale fees.