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SATELLITE POSITIONING SYSTEM ENABLED TRAFFIC DETERMINATION

  • US 20090073035A1
  • Filed: 11/14/2008
  • Published: 03/19/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2001
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. Apparatus for determining the demographics of individuals (“

  • respondents”

    ) passing a predetermined geographic location, comprising;

    (a) a plurality of monitoring devices for tracking the paths of travel followed by a plurality of respondents whose demographics are known, each of said respondents associated with a respective one of said plurality of monitoring devices, each of said plurality of monitoring devices comprising;

    (i) a satellite positioning system SPS engine for tracking the movement of the related respondent along the path of travel followed by the respondent and generating satellite data that represents the path of travel followed by the respondent;

    (ii) a processing unit for processing the path of travel satellite data; and

    (iii) a memory for storing said path of travel satellite data; and

    (b) a server for;

    (i) collecting the path of travel satellite data from each of the monitoring devices; and

    (ii) comparing the collected path of travel satellite data with a predetermined geographic location to determine the demographics of the respondents passing the predetermined geographic location.

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