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7321924 Communication scheme for realizing effective data input/setup in compact size portable terminal device using locally connected nearby computer device  
A communication scheme in which it becomes possible to improve handling of a user interface or omit tedious operations in a portable terminal device by cooperating the computer device with the...
7319863 Method and system for providing an opinion and aggregating opinions with mobile telecommunication device  
A mobile device ( 620 ) provides an opinion system ( 600 ) for receiving opinions from a user and displaying results relating to the received opinion. Opinion user interface elements ( 621 - 622 )...
6873688 Method for carrying out questionnaire based survey in cellular radio system, a cellular radio system and a base station  
The invention relates to making a questionnaire-based survey in a cellular radio system including a central device and a number of independent terminal devices, where between the terminal devices...
6683943 Automated mass audience telecommunications database creation method  
A method for coordinating a generally publicly broadcast contest show with automatically dialed marketing telephone calls by which the recipients are first interrogated about their willingness to...
6631184 System for community generated feedback and/or rating  
A telecommunications network system and method enabling feedback and rating data corresponding to products, services, or product or service providers to be shared among users in real-time. Feedback...
6601113 System platform for a communication system  
An object oriented system platform for a telecommunication system that provides subscriber services includes an upper layer containing applications in the form of base and supplementary functions...
6523233 Method and apparatus for telephone network impairment detection and compensation in signal transmission between modems  
A general, low cost method for detecting and compensating any non-linear digital impairment and linear analog gain for data communication systems transmitting signals through telephone networks is...
6519328 Variable low frequency offset, differential, OOK, high-speed twisted pair communication using telephone load coils  
A method and system for transmitting data over loaded twisted pair copper wires using a low frequency offset, differential voltage, on-off keying (OOK) transmission technique are described....
6457039 Method and apparatus for avoiding IP-address collision when connecting an incoming voice phone call to an internet application  
A method and an apparatus solve the problem of how to avoid IP-address collision when connecting an incoming voice phone call to an internet application. The problem is solved by, from time to...
6456650 Splitterless modem using harmonics reduction  
In a splitterless Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) modem 30 , a receiver architecture ( 100 ) that permits monitoring of harmonics within the upstream channel of a DSL connection. The receiver ( 100...
6324266 Information gathering system  
An audience participation system is disclosed, in which the users are invited to initiate a voting process by dialling a predetermined number using one of the conventional short code memory keys on...
6064724 Modem with automatic callback provisions  
A modem is included in a television receiver for transferring data, such as "pay per view" billing information, to a modem in a billing station during periodic callback operations. The television...
6047052 Data collection method and system with shorter control interval  
A data collection method and system is provided, by which blank time due to a time lag is not generated and a call probability to be broadcast can be calculated based on the number of potentially...
6041115 User interaction procedure  
A user interaction procedure in an Intelligent Networks system may include several stages, such as playing an announcement to a user, and receiving digits entered by the user. The switching point...
6021187 Multimedia phone system  
A system and method for a telecommunications terminal system is disclosed. In one aspect, the method and system include providing a telecommunication device; and providing a back panel coupled to...
5956486 Method and apparatus for monitoring multiple electronic mail systems  
A method for monitoring multiple electronic mail systems includes the steps of: a) configuring an e-mail system polling process on a user's machine; b) polling a number of e-mail systems from the...
5859899 Method and system for data collection using public network and broadcasting  
A data collection scheme with an improved data collection efficiency. In order to collect data from many terminals to a center having a plurality of center service ports through a public network,...
5835580 Method and apparatus for automated provisioning and billing of communication services  
A method for operating a communication network where the tie between the provisioning of and billing for service and the terminating point of the telecommunication network to which service is...
5822423 Apparatus and method for supervising derived channel communications  
A supervisory signal for a derived channel data reporting system is implemented as a tone having a frequency capable of transmission using a telephone signal communicating network, including...
5479492 Televoting method and system  
Televoting method in which a large number of subscribers (1) connected to a telecommunications network (2) are able to make a call to a subscriber number, referred to as televoting number, of a...
5374951 Method and system for monitoring television viewing  
A system for monitoring and recording as data television program viewing habits utilizing a plurality of remote program monitor units in panelists households and automatically periodically...
5262860 Method and system communication establishment utilizing captured and processed visually perceptible data within a broadcast video signal  
A method and system are disclosed for capturing and processing visually perceptible data, such as address or telephone numbers, within a broadcast video signal. Optically recognizable text,...
5185780 Method for predicting agent requirements in a force management system  
A method for predicting a number of agents required to provide a given service level in a force management system is described. The force management system has the capability to generate call...
5155762 Method and a system for acquiring and transmitting information about TV program audiences  
The invention relates to acquiring information about television program audiences and transmitting it in real time by means of detection apparatuses (10) associated with telephone sets (12) and...
5091877 Data processing apparatus  
A data processing apparatus for use in an electronic data research system in which data produced at respective panelist' home is transmitted to a data center via a telephone link which is commonly...
5081680 Initial reporting of remotely generated data  
A device for reporting remotely stored data is coupled to a descrambler in an impulse pay-per-view television system for storing and reporting data pertaining to subject matter descrambled by the...
5075771 Method of and apparatus for optimal scheduling of television programming to maximize customer satisfaction  
In a method of and apparatus for providing a list of optimal television programs for each individual, it is possible to give a computer center a subscriber's complaints about the individual...
5034902 Method and system for ascertaining the consumption habits of a test population  
A method and system for determining the television consumption habits of a test population by obtaining data relating to the program being viewed and/or recorded and transmitting the data through...
4907079 System for monitoring and control of home entertainment electronic devices  
The invention networks a conventional and unmodified television receiver, television monitor, stereo amplifier, VCR's, video disc player, etc. and communicates via telephone lines with any remote...
4905080 Apparatus for collecting television channel data and market research data  
A data collecting apparatus is used in a survey system in which research data such as television audience ratings and market research data is collected by a data collecting device provided in each...
4893248 Monitoring and reporting system for remote terminals  
A system is disclosed for monitoring and accumulating data indicative of viewer authorized pay per view TV programs at each of a plurality of remote terminals, wherein each remote terminal is...
4876736 Method and apparatus for determining channel reception of a receiver  
A method and apparatus are provided for determining the channel of a plurality of predetermined channels to which a remotely controlled receiver is tuned. A first transmitter device includes a...
4829558 System and device for data transmission, and related method  
A system for remotely displaying screen data on televisions or the like transmits screen data over a plurality of commercial radio band carrier transmitters. A plurality of devices are provided,...
4718106 Survey of radio audience  
A technique for surveying an audience. A portable signal detector unit picks up audible sounds reproduced by a radio set from signals transmitted by a given radio station. Among the broadcast...
4646145 Television viewer reaction determining systems  
Television viewer reaction determining systems generate distinct signals indicative of different viewer reactions to television programs. These systems generate a further signal identifying any of...
4603232 Rapid market survey collection and dissemination method  
A method for independently centrally electronically accumulating market survey data from different content rapidly disseminated multiple inquiry market surveys from a plurality of panelist stations...
4578700 Apparatus for storing data relating to television viewing  
An arrangement is disclosed which stores data received from a people monitoring unit which produces information relating to the number of people watching a television set and/or from a television...
4566030 Television viewer data collection system  
A data storage and transmission system is provided for accumulating and transmitting data from a plurality of remote T.V. panelist locations to a central location. Each remote unit includes a...
4345113 Automatic telephone message interception system  
An automatic telephone message interception system which is connected in series between a telephone instrument and incoming telephone lines. The system intercepts an incoming call and, upon the...
4258386 Television audience measuring system  
Apparatus for television audience analysis comprising means for monitoring a television receiver, means responsive to a monitored signal for storing information representative of channel...
4170782 Programming and selection monitoring system for television receivers  
A television receiver programming and selection monitoring system is provided to permit a television viewer to preselect a television viewing schedule of desired television channels to be viewed...
4048562 Monitoring system for voltage tunable receivers and converters utilizing voltage comparison techniques  
A system for remotely monitoring or determining the channel to which a voltage tunable receiver (or CATV converter) has been tuned includes an encoder for measuring the magnitude of the tuning...
3950618 System for public opinion research  
An AC burst having a length depending upon the response chosen by the participant is put on a telephone line regardless of the operating state thereof, at a frequency outside of the telephone band....
3943641 Audience response system  
An audience response system includes a console having a plurality of pairs of lamps in which one lamp of each pair is grouped with corresponding ones of the lamps of the other pairs. The system...
3218391 Automatic reporting apparatus  
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