Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Surveying wireless device users by location
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Application No.: US14455173Application Date: 2014-08-08
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Publication No.: US09460445B2Publication Date: 2016-10-04
- Inventor: Robert T. Moton, Jr. , Mark J. Enzmann , Samuel N. Zellner
- Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
- Applicant Address: US GA Atlanta
- Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
- Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
- Current Assignee Address: US GA Atlanta
- Agency: Hartman & Citrin LLC
- Main IPC: H04W24/00
- IPC: H04W24/00 ; G06Q30/02 ; H04W16/00 ; H04W4/02

Abstract:
The present invention is a system and method for conducting survey using wireless devices. The system architecture of the present invention comprises a location server and a location system. The location server can receive a survey request from a subscriber, delineate a survey area for the survey, broadcast a query containing the survey to a plurality of wireless devices, process responses received from the wireless devices, and deliver a result of the survey to the subscriber. The location system can generate location information for each of the wireless devices that received the query. The location system may be a network-based unit or a portable unit provisioned at each of the wireless devices. In one of the embodiments, the location system is a GPS receiver that generates the longitude and the latitude of the wireless devices at which it is provisioned.
Public/Granted literature
- US09501780B2 Surveying wireless device users by location Public/Granted day:2016-11-22
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