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US 7,272,982 B2Granted
Gathering data concerning publication usage
AssigneeArbitron Inc.
InventorsAlan R. Neuhauser, James M. Jensen, Jack C. Crystal, Jack K. Zhang, Daniel W. Pugh, Douglas J. Visnius, Eugene L. Flanagan, III
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Abstract
Methods and systems for measuring and gathering data relating to publication usage by participants in publication readership studies. Some methods and systems employ portable monitors carried by participants of the studies along with publications fitted with various devices, such as piezoelectric transducers, RFID tags and others devices and circuits.
Claims6
A method of gathering data concerning usage of a publication by a person, comprising:
- producing raw data representing stress applied to a publication by a person;
- and
- producing usage data representing usage of the publication by the person based on the raw data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.