Systems and methods to wirelessly meter audio/visual devices

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9015740-B2
Application number	US-201414277456-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 14, 2014
Priority date	Dec 12, 2005
Publication date	Apr 21, 2015
Grant date	Apr 21, 2015

Abstract

Example systems and methods to wirelessly meter audio/visual (A/V) devices are disclosed. A disclosed example method receives media content from an A/V source device, embeds a video overlay in the wirelessly received media content, and wirelessly transmits the media content and the video overlay to the wireless A/V device. The example method wirelessly receives audience identification information in response to the transmitted video overlay, and wirelessly receives audience behavior information.

First claim

What is claimed:

1. A method to selectively collect audio-based media in a household, comprising:
embedding, within the household, a first watermark in media from a household source media device;
wirelessly retransmitting the media with the first watermark via a wireless access point in the household;
detecting audio output from a local presentation device;
identifying the audio output as unassociated with the household source media device when the first watermark is absent…

Assignees

• Nielsen Co Us Llc

Inventors

• Ramaswamy Arun

Classifications

• H04N21/8358 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04H2201/50

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N21/4126

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04H20/08

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04H60/31

  Electricity · mapped topic