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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2014
The Nielsen Company (Us), Llc, Schaumburg, IL (US);
Jack K. Zhang, Ijamsville, MD (US);
James M. Jensen, Columbia, MD (US);
The Nielsen Company (US), LLC, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems are disclosed to map locations of wireless transmitters for use in gathering market research data. A disclosed example method involves displaying a representation of a commercial establishment on a portable device, obtaining transmitter data via the portable device from a wireless transmitter located within the commercial establishment, and in response to the portable device receiving a user selection of a first location on the representation of the commercial establishment, associating the first location with the transmitter data and location information generated by the portable device representative of a physical location in the commercial establishment.