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AssigneeGoogle Inc.
InventorsSimon Michael Rowe, Nicholas Salvatore Arini, Owen Charlebois
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A TV audience survey system for determining the TV viewing activities of a plurality of individuals in a household includes a master device and multiple tags, each tag assigned to an individual. After an individual logs into the system and starts watching the TV, the master device communicates with the corresponding tag repeatedly to accumulate data representing the individual's TV viewing activities. Such data can be used to determine when the individual stops watching the TV for an extended period of time without logging out of the system and when the household member remains watching the TV after logging or being logged out of the system. The master device then reports the accumulated data to a remote server, which uses the data to determine whether the individual complies with the logging protocol defined by the TV audience survey system and update the TV viewership data associated with this household.
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A computer-implemented method for determining TV viewership data of individuals in a household equipped with a TV audience survey system, comprising:
A computer system for determining TV viewership data of individuals in a household equipped with a TV audience survey system, comprising:
A non-transitory computer readable medium storing one or more programs to be executed by a one or more processors, the one or more programs comprising instructions for:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.