Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Discount or incentive
Reexamination Certificate
2003-09-19
2009-10-20
Boswell, Beth V (Department: 3623)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Discount or incentive
C705S026640, C705S027200
Reexamination Certificate
active
07606728
ABSTRACT:
A system and method are provided for analyzing a shopping environment. The method typically includes tracking a plurality of paths of a plurality of persons in the shopping environment, and recording corresponding path data. The method further may include normalizing path data for each path by use of a predetermined normalization function, and calculating a predetermined statistical measure of the normalized shopping data. The method also may include producing output based upon the predetermined statistical measure.
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