IDENTIFYING ITEMS AT DISPOSAL FOR GENERATING HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION DATA
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Abstract
Technologies are generally described for gathering household consumption data at product disposal and determining a household consumption behavior. Disposed items may be identified through various identification techniques such as optical image capture based identification, a barcode based identification, or a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag based identification at a point of disposal by a collecting entity associated with additional information such as address, date/time of collection, etc. for a household consumption database. A household consumption behavior may be determined based on analysis of the household consumption database and a report of the household consumption behavior may be provided to business and legal entities for allowing the entities to use the household consumption data for targeting consumers for marketing, as well as for legal, and regulatory purposes.
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51 Claims
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1-13. -13. (canceled)
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14. A system for gathering household consumption data at product disposal, the system comprising:
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one or more identification modules configured to capture identification information associated with a disposed product at a point of disposal; a processing module configured to; identify the disposed product based on the captured identification information; determine an address associated with the disposed product through one of;
a manual entry, a Global Positioning Service (GPS) based automatic determination, an identifier of a disposal receptacle associated with the address, or geocoding a location of the point of disposal; andassociate a product disposal event with the determined address to obtain the household consumption data; determine product attribute information; and include the product attribute information in the household consumption data; allow consumers to opt out from having their products identified at the point of disposal and a communication module configured to provide the household consumption data to a processing server. - View Dependent Claims (15, 17, 19, 22, 23, 24)
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16. (canceled)
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27. A method for gathering household consumption data, the method comprising:
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receiving the household consumption data from a collection system, wherein the household consumption data is obtained by; identifying a disposed product through one or more identification techniques at a point of disposal; determining an address associated with the disposed product; and associating a product disposal event with the determined address to obtain the household consumption data; determining a household consumption behavior based on processing the household consumption data employing one or more of data mining and performing predictive analysis; determining product attribute information; including the product attribute information in the household consumption data; providing the household consumption behavior to one or more entities; and allowing consumers to opt out from having their products identified at the point of disposal. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32, 36, 37, 38, 39)
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41. An information processing system for gathering household consumption data, the system comprising:
a server configured to; receive the household consumption data from a collection system that is configured to; identify a disposed product through one or more identification techniques at a point of disposal; determine an address associated with the disposed product; and associate a product disposal event with the determined address to obtain the household consumption data; determine a household consumption behavior based on the household consumption data; anonymize the household consumption data; provide the household consumption behavior to one or more entities; identify one or more target consumers for a product based on the household consumption behavior; include a list of the one or more target consumers for the product with the household consumption behavior; and allow consumers to opt out from having their products identified at the point of disposal. - View Dependent Claims (42, 43, 45, 47, 49, 50)
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44. (canceled)
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