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AssigneeThe Nielsen Company (US), LLC
InventorsDavid J. Croy, Arun Ramaswamy, Paul Mears
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Portable audience measurement architectures and methods for portable audience measurement are disclosed. A disclosed system contains a plurality of portable measurement devices configured to collect audience measurement data from media devices, a plurality of data collection servers configured to collect audience measurement data from the plurality of portable measurement devices, and a central data processing server. A portable measurement device establishes a communication link with a data collection server in a peer-to-peer manner and transfers the collected audience measurement data to the data collection server. Because the portable measurement device is not dedicated to a particular local data collection server, the portable measurement device periodically or a periodically broadcasts a message attempting to find a data collection server with which to establish a communication link.
An audience measurement architecture comprising:
An audience measurement architecture as defined in claim 20, wherein the first data collection server and the second data collection server are networked with the central facility.
An audience measurement architecture as defined in claim 20, wherein the first data collection server and the second data collection server are structured to publish their capabilities to receive audience measurement data.
An audience measurement architecture as defined in claim 22, wherein the first portable measurement device is to publish a capability to at least one of collect audience measurement data or upload audience measurement data.
An audience measurement architecture as defined in claim 20, wherein the first portable measurement device is to transmit the first audience measurement data to the second data collection server via a wireless connection.
An audience measurement architecture as defined in claim 20, wherein the first portable measurement device is to transmit the first audience measurement data to the first data collection server after the first portable measurement device has collected a threshold amount of audience measurement data and after the first data collection server is detected.
An audience measurement architecture as defined in claim 20, wherein the first audience measurement data comprises at least one of (1) a signature of a broadcast program detected by the first portable measurement device and (2) a code broadcast with the broadcast program and collected by the portable measurement device.
An audience measurement architecture as defined in claim 20, wherein the first portable measurement device is to transmit the first audience measurement data to the first data collection server using an extensible markup language message.
An audience measurement architecture as defined in claim 20, wherein the first portable measurement device is to receive the first audience measurement data from a third portable measurement device.
An audience measurement architecture as defined in claim 20, wherein the first portable measurement device is to automatically detect the second data collection server when the first portable measurement device is within a communication range of the second data collection server.
An audience measurement architecture as defined in claim 20, wherein the first data collection server is further to receive and store fourth audience measurement data from the second portable measurement device and to transmit the fourth audience measurement data to the central facility.
A method comprising:
An audience measurement architecture comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.