Systems and Methods of Mapping Locales
First Claim
1. A system of mapping a retail establishment by one or more users, said system comprising creating, gathering and/or editing data from one or more of a store web site, a third party vendor, or manual input from said one or more users, wherein the store web site, the third party vendor or the manual input from said one or more users operationally communicates with a graphical user interface of a main server, the graphical user interface able to facilitate generation of the mapping of the retail establishment by using input of one or more data points to create a database, said one or more data points being gathered and/or input directly or indirectly by the store web site, the third party vendor, or manual input from the one or more users.
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Abstract
The present invention relates to one or more applications and/or programs that may be used on a smart phone, on a computer, or on a computer like device. The one or more applications and/or programs are able to receive input from one or more users or may automatically receive information from web sites that allows the mapping of establishments and may also create a database that contains relevant information that can be used by consumers and various establishments. When a user accesses the one or more applications and/or programs, the one or more applications and/or programs can provide the user with information such as the best route to take so that the user will arrive at a given product. The present invention may also be able to map other locales. Other advantages that may be provided by the one or more applications and/or programs include raising revenue, offering better service to the public, auditing emergency procedures and other procedures, inventorying goods and/or products, studying the effects of marketing, testing the effectiveness of staging, reducing costs, and/or evaluating vender and/or service providers.
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20 Claims
- 1. A system of mapping a retail establishment by one or more users, said system comprising creating, gathering and/or editing data from one or more of a store web site, a third party vendor, or manual input from said one or more users, wherein the store web site, the third party vendor or the manual input from said one or more users operationally communicates with a graphical user interface of a main server, the graphical user interface able to facilitate generation of the mapping of the retail establishment by using input of one or more data points to create a database, said one or more data points being gathered and/or input directly or indirectly by the store web site, the third party vendor, or manual input from the one or more users.
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14. A method of creating and/or using a map of a retail establishment by one or more users comprising:
- accessing an application that is operationally linked to a graphical user interface of a server of an application provider, said one or more users optionally inputting new data to create said map and/or to use said map, wherein said new data includes indicia about a location of said one or more users or of one or more products, running said new data through a computer algorithm on said server that compares said new data to old data on the server, or stores and/or processes said new data to generate a database, wherein said database is then used to create a map of a retail establishment that can be accessed by said one or more users.
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