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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2008
Jeff A. Zias, Los Altos, CA (US);
Dante Emilio Cassanego, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jeff A. Zias, Los Altos, CA (US);
Dante Emilio Cassanego, Mountain View, CA (US);
Intuit Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for evaluating expansion of a business where the business is located in a first geographic area. The method includes receiving information about the business, querying a business information source and a demographic information source using the information, receiving data from the business information source and the demographic information source in response to the querying, processing the data using business expansion factors to obtain a rank order, where the data comprises a plurality of potential geographic areas for expanding the business, where the plurality of potential geographic areas are evaluated on the business expansion factors to determine a similarity to the first geographic area to obtain a rank order, and presenting, in the rank order, each of the plurality of potential geographic areas.