Patent ID: 7415510
Filing Date: 2008-08-19
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
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.