Jukebox polling system
AssigneeData Information Systems Corporation
InventorGeorge B. McConnell
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Abstract
A data acquisition and transmission system for surveying a plurality of remotely location jukeboxes via telephone lines. A data collector, operatively associated with each jukebox, includes a song identification arrangement and storage memory for determining the number of times a particular song is played over a given period of time. At regular intervals, a central station contacts each data collector via telephone and requests the stored information which is subsequently transmitted via telephone lines to a central computer which tabulates and stores the information. The collected data is then processed to provide a distribution scale useful in determining the proper allocation of royalty fees received from jukebox licensing fees.
Claims6
A data acquisition and transmission system for monitoring a plurality of remotely located check-controlled song reproduction devices each device including means for identifying a song position, said system comprising:
- a song collector and transmitter unit physically connected to a song reproduction device so as to receive signals identifying a record position selected;
- said unit being capable of interpreting signals received from said song reproduction device so as to count all occurrences of all record positions selected;
- said unit including means to memorize the identification signal for each record position;
- said means capable of storing the number of times each record position is selected over a period of times;
- said unit including a transmitting means capable of transmitting stored information to a collector/scanner.
A data acquisition and transmission system for monitoring a plurality of remotely located check-controlled song reproduction devices, said system comprising:
- (1) a data collector operatively associated with each of said song reproduction devices for receiving a data stream indicative of the identity of a song selected, said collector including:
- (a) a data stream conversion means for converting said data stream to a binary number representative of a song selected;
- (b) a storage means for storing each binary number produced by said conversion means to provide a tally of the number of times each song has been selected;
- (2) a communications link;
- (3) a transmitting unit capable of connecting each data collector to said communications link;
- (4) message generating means for presenting data extracted from said memory to said transmitting unit;
- (5) a central station;
- (6) a receiving unit for connecting said central station to said communications link for transferring signals from said link to said central station;
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- (7) a controller for establishing a connection between said receiving units and any of said transmitting units over said communications link.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.