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US 2014/0273822 A1Published application
Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to monitor mobile devices
AssigneeThe Nielsen Company (US), LLC
InventorAlejandro Gutierrez
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Abstract
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to monitor mobile devices are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a shell having a form factor dimensioned to receive a mobile device; and a near-field interceptor coupled to the shell, the near-field interceptor to capture data communicated via a near-field energy field between a first near-field communication device of the mobile device and a second near field communication device external to the mobile device.
Claims26
A mobile device case, comprising:
- a shell having a form factor dimensioned to receive a mobile device;
- and
- a near-field interceptor coupled to the shell, the near-field interceptor to capture data communicated via a near-field energy field between a first near-field communication device of the mobile device and a second near field communication device external to the mobile device.
An apparatus, comprising:
- a housing to carry a first Near Field Communication (NFC) enabled device having a first NFC communicator that communicates data via an NFC field;
- an interceptor physically located in the housing and separate from the first NFC-enabled device such that the interceptor is positioned in the NFC field when the first NFC communicator is active, the interceptor to collect the data communicated via the NFC field between the first NFC communicator of the device and a second NFC communicator of a second NFC-enabled device different than the first NFC-enabled device.
A method, comprising:
- determining, via a first near-field device integrated in a mobile device case, that a near-field energy field is present between a near-field initiator device and a near-field target device, wherein one of the near-field initiator and the near-field target device is a component of a mobile device carried by the mobile device case, and the first near-field device is neither the near-field initiator device nor the near-field target device;
- collecting, via the first near-field device, data transmitted between the near-field initiator device and the near-field target device via the NFC field;
- and
- conveying the collected data from the first near-field device to a memory.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.