| 5041972 |
Method of measuring and evaluating consumer response for the development of consumer products |
| Aug-20-1991 |
A method for evaluating consumer response comprising conducting interviews to obtain emotional, rational and personality descriptors of functionally related items, eliciting from consumers evaluations... |
| 5029098 |
Vend space allocation monitor means and method |
| Jul-2-1991 |
A vend space allocation monitor apparatus and method for use with a vending system capable of vending from among a plurality of classes of selectable vendable products of product from a selected product... |
| 5023435 |
Response form processing system |
| Jun-11-1991 |
A response form processing system (22) is provided which allows for the processing of response forms (10) which comprise a group code (20), questions (12) and (14), response prompts (16) and response blocks... |
| 4972504 |
Marketing research system and method for obtaining retail data on a real time basis |
| Nov-20-1990 |
A market research retail sales data collection system and method includes a plurality of cooperating retail stores, each having an in-store device for automatically collecting processing and storing market... |
| 4958284 |
Open ended question analysis system and method |
| Sep-18-1990 |
A method and system for data processing open-ended respondent answers to open-ended questions provides reproducible categorized dynamically variable coding of the open-ended respondent answers to the open-ended... |
| 4908761 |
System for identifying heavy product purchasers who regularly use manufacturers' purchase incentives and predicting consumer promotional behavior response patterns |
| Mar-13-1990 |
There is provided a system and methodology for identifying the heaviest product purchasers who regularly use coupons and determining their promotional behavior response patterns of which involves initially... |
| 4887207 |
Automated system for evaluating the sensitivity of inventory costs due to fluctuations in customer demand |
| Dec-12-1989 |
An automated inventory management system is provided which is easy to use and user friendly to evaluate the impact of customer demand changes on inventory. For a given item, the system automatically defines... |
| 4872113 |
Credit check scanner data analysis system |
| Oct-3-1989 |
A system for interrelating scanner data from a supermarket checkout counter with demographic and/or economic data concerning individual customers to generate a demographic and economic analysis of sales... |
| 4853852 |
Means for marketing |
| Aug-1-1989 |
A marketing tool having portable lap computer for recording a sales call made by a salesman of an employer on a customer. The information of the call is transmitted from the lap computer to a master computer... |
| 4807177 |
Multiple format hand held label printer |
| Feb-21-1989 |
A multiple format hand held label printer includes a processor, a memory, a keyboard, a thermal printer and an advance mechanism for a tape of successive labels carried on a substrate. The processor reads... |
| 4796180 |
Method of monitoring mail delivery |
| Jan-3-1989 |
A method of monitoring the delivery of mail pieces by the postal service utilizes a data processor. A batch mailing includes selected mailing pieces to be monitored with each selected mailing piece being... |
| 4787036 |
Student enrollment stabilization system |
| Nov-22-1988 |
Data processing for an improved student population maintenance system for educational institutions predicts number of students for a target year, costs for target year, revenues for target year, tuition... |
| 4782513 |
Voice prompted bar code reading satellite system |
| Nov-1-1988 |
A bar code reading system with novel features of a centralized station having remote reading satellite stations. Each centralized station has a computer, bar code decoder for decoding bar code information... |
| 4779198 |
Audience monitoring system |
| Oct-18-1988 |
Each doorway or passageway between rooms in which a device may be located is fitted with another device which detects motion and the direction of the motion through the passage. Each room is equipped with... |
| 4771381 |
Method and system for effecting sensory evaluation of a smoking product |
| Sep-13-1988 |
A method and system for effecting sensory evaluation of a smoking product wherein selected smoking parameters are monitored precisely while a smoking product is being smoked ad libitum by a sensory evaluation... |
| 4745549 |
Method of and apparatus for optimal scheduling of television programming to maximize customer satisfaction |
| May-17-1988 |
In a method and apparatus for extracting programs suitable for individual subscriber taste from among all available television programs and for editing an individual subscriber television program list,... |
| 4700295 |
System and method for forecasting bank traffic and scheduling work assignments for bank personnel |
| Oct-13-1987 |
A method and system for forecasting bank traffic and teller utilization and for scheduling work assignments for bank personnel based on the forecasts includes data gathering apparatus and steps and data... |
| 4649481 |
Electronic cash register with means to store and correlate data on a customer by customer basis |
| Mar-10-1987 |
An electronic cash register of the invention can provide a correlation between sales of items or commodities. The electronic cash register has a PLU code data memory. The PLU code data memory stores PLU... |
| 4355372 |
Market survey data collection method |
| Oct-19-1982 |
A method for independently electronically collecting related market survey data from a plurality of diverse locations (6,6') for temporary storage at each of the independent diverse locations (6,6') where... |
| 4345315 |
Customer satisfaction terminal |
| Aug-17-1982 |
An electronic terminal for electronically collecting opinion data from customers of a service organization as to the satisfaction with the services rendered. The electronic terminal has a keyboard that... |
