Patent ID: 8825662
Filing Date: 2014-09-02
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for generating IP zones comprising the steps of: merging one or more sources of IP addresses to create a merged database comprising a plurality of IP zones; classifying each of the plurality of IP zones into a respective user type classification, the user type classification comprising at least one of home, business, government, education, and wireless; generating a variable-enhanced consumer demographic database by creating a scored population from a plurality of data sources, the data sources comprising demographic and/or firmagraphic data; aggregating and summarizing the variable-enhanced consumer demographic database for each of a plurality of demographic variables at a plurality of distinct geographic scales to form summarized geo-demographic consumer data; appending seed data with the summarized geo-demographic consumer data to form appended seed data, the seed data comprising at least one IP address; mapping the appended seed data to a corresponding one of the plurality of IP zones; associating at least one geo-demographic variable of the appended seed data with the corresponding one of the plurality of IP zones for at least one of the plurality of distinct geo-demographic scales to generate a plurality of enhanced IP zones; receiving an input address comprising at least one of an IP address and a postal address; and selecting one or more of the plurality of enhanced IP zones having a predetermined statistical relationship to the input address.