US 7,415,510 B1
System for indexing pedestrian traffic
George Kramerich, Morton Grove, Ill. (US); Barbara Johnson, Elk Grove Village, Ill. (US); Krista Diberardino, Lake Villa, Ill. (US); William Jackewicz, McHenry, Ill. (US); James Martin, Grays Lake, Ill. (US); and Andrew Voss, Buffalo Grove, Ill. (US)
Assigned to Shoppertrack RCT Corporation, Chicago, Ill. (US)
Appl. No. 9/936,987
PCT Filed Mar. 17, 2000, PCT No. PCT/US00/07001
§ 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Mar. 05, 2002,
PCT Pub. No. WO00/57287, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 28, 2000.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/125451, filed on Mar. 19, 1999.
Int. Cl. G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G07B 15/00 (2006.01); G07B 15/02 (2006.01); G07G 1/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 709—219  [709/217; 709/223; 709/224; 705/10; 705/13] 29 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A pedestrian traffic indexing system comprising:
a plurality of traffic monitors at a plurality of provider sites;
a server connected to said traffic monitors to receive pedestrian traffic data from said traffic monitors, the pedestrian traffic data comprising pedestrian traffic data from the provider sites;
a traffic database for storing said pedestrian traffic data;
a database for storing non-traffic business related data wherein the non-traffic business related data comprises census demographics data, sales data, site profiles associated with the provider sites, and corporate profiles including labor data;
a view creator for generating national retail traffic index data by processing data stored in the traffic database and the database for storing non-traffic related data, wherein the national retail traffic index data includes a plurality of calculated indexes related to the provider sites, the indexes calculated using a plurality of metrics with each metric related to the plurality of provider sites and based upon both the pedestrian traffic data and the non-traffic business related data;
a national retail traffic index data mart for storing the national retail traffic index data; and
a data communications connection for transferring data among the traffic database, the at least one database for storing non-traffic related data, the view creator, the national retail traffic index database and the server wherein a user can access the national retail traffic index data mart via the data communications connection to access the national retail traffic index data.