US 8,914,819 B2 · Methods and apparatus for metering portable media players

Abstract

Example methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to collect metering information associated with media presented by portable and computer media presentation devices are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus includes a headset configured to be communicatively coupled to a media presentation device and a speaker coupled to the headset and configured to emit audio based on audio information received from the media presentation device. The example apparatus also includes a metering information generator coupled to the headset and configured to be communicatively coupled to the media presentation device to receive the audio information and generate metering information associated with the received audio information.

Claims23

Dependent claims

An apparatus to monitor a portable media presentation device, comprising:

a portable meter separate from a portable media presentation device, the portable meter to be connected between the portable media presentation device and a headset, the portable meter comprising:
a metering information generator to receive media, the media provided by the portable media presentation device for receipt by the headset;
an audio interface to direct the media to the metering information generator from an audio output interface of the portable media presentation device;
and
a first communication interface to communicatively couple to a second communication interface of the portable media presentation device, the metering information generator to:
monitor media access commands exchanged between the first communication interface of the portable meter and the second communication interface of the portable media presentation device, and
collect metering information associated with the media and with the media access commands.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

12/106,040Filed 18 Apr 2008 · continuation

Priority

21 Oct 2005

Published

US 2008/0263579 A123 Oct 2008

Granted

16 Dec 2014

Term ends

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Classification37 codes

H04N 21/44218
Monitoring of end-user related data: detecting physical presence or behaviour of the user, e.g. using sensors to detect if the user is leaving the…
G06F 16/41
Of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data: indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
G11B 27/322
On separate auxiliary tracks of the same or an auxiliary record carrier: used signal is digitally coded
G11B 27/36
Editing; Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Monitoring; Measuring tape travel: monitoring, i.e. supervising the progress of recording…

Family

Application60/729,421Us provisional application · filed 21 Oct 2005

Application60/786,196Us provisional application · filed 27 Mar 2006

Application60/813,757Us provisional application · filed 14 Jun 2006

PCT/US2006/060118Parent of this continuation · filed 20 Oct 2006

US 2008/0263579 A1Pre-grant publication · published 23 Oct 2008

US 8,914,819 B2This patent

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Methods and apparatus for metering portable media players

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Claims23