Patent ID: 8041590
Filing Date: 2011-10-18
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for analyzing shopper data from a plurality of shopping environments at a shopper data analysis system, comprising: receiving data from a plurality of individual stores each having an individual store floor plan including shopper accessible areas and shopper non-accessible areas by a data analysis device wherein the data are received from one or more data collection and transfer devices; providing a standard floor plan including a plurality of predefined sectors having respective relative locations and shopper accessible areas where the standard floor plan is stored in memory of the data analysis device; standardizing each respective individual store floor plan by a conversion program executable by the data analysis device to produce a corresponding standardized individual store floor plan based on the standard floor plan, each standardized individual store floor plan including the same number of sectors as the standard floor plan, the relative location and shopper accessible area of each of the sectors in each standardized individual store floor plan corresponding to the location and shopper accessible area of a corresponding predefined sector of the standard floor plan, the conversion program further executable by the data analysis device to standardize the individual store floor plan by dividing each individual floor plan into a plurality of grid areas to represent traffic points of each store, creating the same number of grid areas in the standard floor plan, mapping each grid area in the individual floor plan to each corresponding grid area in the standard floor plan so that a weighted grid area in the individual floor plan is created, the weighted grid area having an equivalent geographic location and shopper accessible area to each corresponding grid area in the standard floor plan, and defining boundary lines of each predefined sector of the individual store floor plan based on the weighted grid areas for each predefined sector; and producing an output by the data analysis device, the output including the standardized individual store floor plan.