Patent Document ID: 10127457
Application ID: 15362097
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A computer system for determining an economic performance of a business location comprising the steps of: a recording device capturing one or more visual recordings of a parking lot of the business location; a processor in communication with the recording device, the processor including instructions that when executed cause the processor to: receive the one or more visual recordings and generate one or more representations from the one or more visual recordings; determine whether a threshold value of a selected criteria is met by each of the one or more representations, wherein the selected criteria is cloud cover; remove the one or more representations that do not meet the threshold value; extract content for evaluation from the one or more refined representations; refine content, wherein the content is refined using cloud cover criteria by overlaying coordinate units on the content to detect the coordinate units that intersect with the cloud cover criteria and removal of the content with the coordinate units that do not intersect with the cloud cover criteria; evaluate the content by counting a number of parking spaces in a parking lot of the business location; counting a number of vehicles in the parking lot of the business location; and dividing the number of vehicles in the parking lot by the number of parking spaces in the business location to obtain a traffic result, the traffic result comprising an estimate of economic activity of the business location; and a display, the display comprising a plurality of data screen configured to display the business location by a ticker name, the traffic result, and a time period to which the traffic result corresponds, the time period including a time slot during a day, a day of a week, one or more months, or one or more years.