METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GATHERING MARKET RESEARCH DATA INSIDE AND OUTSIDE COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENTS

Patent №

US 7,420,464

Granted

2008-09-02

Filed 2005

Owner

ARBITRON INC.

Lab

AI components

1

planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11092497

Methods and systems for tracking movements of participants in a market research study, for example, outside retail establishments, are provided. The methods and systems employ portable monitors carried on the persons of the participants to gather location data.

PlanningG07C 9/28G06Q 30/00G06Q 30/02G07C 11/00

AI classification

Planning0.53
Knowledge representation0.25
Vision0.04
Evolutionary computation0.02
Natural language0.02
Machine learning0.00
AI hardware0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

ARBITRON INC.

assignment · 165160532

Assignors

FITZGERALD, JOAN, CRYSTAL, JACK C., NEUHAUSER, ALAN R., JENSEN, JAMES M., FORR, DAVID PATRICK, FLANAGAN, EUGENE L. III

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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