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AssigneeThe Nielsen Company (US), LLC
InventorsArun Ramaswamy, Charles C. Conklin, Wayne A. Olmsted, Karin Johnson, Fred Martensen, Daniel Nelson, Alexander Topchy, Paul M. Mears
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Methods and apparatus for multi-purpose metering are disclosed. An example method includes acquiring a rate of data transfer to/from the monitored location and comparing the acquired rate of data transfer to a threshold. The example method also includes setting at least one media monitoring device in a first bandwidth mode when the acquired rate of data transfer exceeds the threshold, and setting the at least one media monitoring device in a second bandwidth mode when the acquired rate of data transfer is below the threshold.
A method to configure media monitoring devices in a monitored location comprising:
A method as defined in claim 8, further comprising instructing the media monitoring device to operate in the first bandwidth mode without compression in response to exceeding the threshold, and instructing the media monitoring device to operate in the second bandwidth mode with compression in response to not exceeding the threshold.
An apparatus to configure a media monitoring device sample rate, comprising:
A tangible machine readable storage medium comprising instructions which, when executed, cause a machine to, at least:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.