Patent ID: 7987123

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of accessing, collecting and classifying that uses information of wireless data market subscribers, said method comprising: receiving, with a survey participant computer system, subscriber access information from a wireless subscriber to access a wireless carrier webpage, the access information including an indication of a first candidate carrier; accessing, with the survey participant computer system, a webpage of the first candidate carrier and using the access information to access an online bill of the wireless subscriber via the webpage; when the access of the online bill via the webpage of the first candidate carrier is unsuccessful, accessing the online bill via a webpage of a subsequent candidate carrier from a list of candidate carriers generated by an online survey system, the survey participant computer system to access each of a plurality of wireless carriers from the list of candidate carriers until the correct wireless carrier is identified; collecting data usage information from the accessed online bill associated with the correct candidate carrier and saving to a memory associated with the survey participant computer system; performing initial processing of said data usage information to generate processed data usage information associated with the wireless subscriber; and classifying said processed data usage information to generate market analysis information for said wireless data market.