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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 2024
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2018
Acxiom Llc, Conway, AR (US);
Craig Tomarkin, Fairfield, CT (US);
Acxiom LLC, Conway, AR (US);
Abstract
In a system and method for measuring global urbanicity, trapezoid shapes are built based on latitude/longitude boundaries using two different scales in two dimensions, thus yielding four different shapes/sizes of trapezoids. A multiplier is applied to adjust the count within a trapezoid to compensate for the fact that these trapezoids delineated by latitude/longitude lines will diminish in size as they approach the poles of the Earth. Census data is applied from a given country, and then summed up using an external data set pertaining to counts. Finally, the counts are rolled up into a set number of urbanicity 'bands' or levels as desired for a particular application.