Audiovisual content watching detection and feedback using a wireless set top box

A method performed by a first device, the method comprising:

• establishing, by the first device, a wireless connection with a second device;
• identifying, by the first device, a start of playback of audio visual (AV) content for presentation by a display device communicatively coupled to the first device;
• in response to identifying the start of the playback of the AV content, sending, by the first device to the second device via the wireless connection, a request signal to instruct the second device to determine whether a user is present in an environment where the display device is located;
• receiving, by the first device from the second device via the wireless connection, a response signal that indicates whether the user is present in the environment;
• based on the response signal being indicative that the user is present in the environment and based on at least one event identified by the first device, determining, by the first device, that the AV content presented on the display device is being watched by the user;
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• generating, by the first device, a report to notify a provider of the AV content that the AV content has been watched by the user.

In an environment that includes a first device and a second device, a method performed by the second device to enable the first device to determine whether audiovisual (AV) content is being watched by a user, the method comprising:

• establishing, by the second device, a wireless connection between the second device and the first device;
• sending, by the second device to the first device via the wireless connection, the AV content for presentation by a display device communicatively coupled to the second device;
• capturing, by the second device, characteristics associated with the wireless connection;
• receiving, by the second device from the first device via the wireless connection, a request signal that instructs the second device to perform sensing to determine whether the user is present in the environment;
• in response to the request signal, performing, by the second device, the sensing by using the captured characteristics and a machine learning model to determine that the user is present in the environment and to generate a response signal that indicates that the user is present;
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• sending, by the second device to the first device via the wireless connection, the response signal to enable the first device to use the response signal in combination with at least one event to determine that the AV content presented on the display device is being watched by the user.