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7379705 |
Mobile station randomizing of message transmission timing to mitigate mass message event
To mitigate the impact of a mass communication event, such as a mass voting event, on the resources of the mobile wireless communication network, each user's mobile station is adapted to...
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7366461 |
Method and apparatus for improving the quality of a recorded broadcast audio program
Recordings of broadcast audio content often contain errors (e.g., noise, signal loss, interference, talkover). A method and apparatus are provided for improving the quality of such a recording....
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7359710 |
Satellite TV derivative programming via mobile phone
A wireless telephony network provides satellite TV derivative program information and content, in addition to conventional wireless telephony services, to eligible mobile stations of the wireless...
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7340258 |
Mobile phone combined with satellite radio capability
A wireless telephony network provides satellite radio program information and content, in addition to conventional wireless telephony services, to eligible mobile stations of the wireless telephony...
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7310350 |
Mobile surveys and polling
A method and system are provided for allowing mobile device users to participate in an online survey community by entering opinions and reading opinions of other through their mobile devices. The...
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7289762 |
Method for performing an inquiry in a telecommunications network
The invention concerns a method for performing an inquiry in a telecommunications network, in which the inquiry is carried out in the following steps: —creating a database of persons, —forming...
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7277671 |
Wireless response system and method
A wireless response system includes a base unit and a plurality of handheld response units communicating with the base unit over a wireless communication link. The base unit sends polling commands...
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7257611 |
Distributed nonstop architecture for an event processing system
Methods and architectures for implementing a fault tolerant real time event processing system are provided. The system includes at least one satellite and at least one primary data center. The...
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7221937 |
Event reminder method
A mobile device that uses events as triggers for reminders in addition to date and time. Such events may be location-based, or based on other events or tasks scheduled by the user and other events...
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7215280 |
Satellite positioning system enabled media exposure
Utilizing monitoring devices ( 200 ) for determining the effectiveness of various locations, such as media display locations ( 150 ) for an intended purpose (media display exposure) is disclosed....
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7197551 |
Method and system for implementing supervision in a telecommunication system
Method and system for automatically configuring supervision and performing supervision in a supervision system comprising a supervision center; and a supervision block which contains processes...
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7155159 |
Audience detection
An audience surveying technique for identifying individual members of an audience listening to and/or watching a program performed from a programming signal source. A stationary apparatus is...
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7123918 |
Methods and apparatus for extrapolating person and device counts
Methods and apparatus for providing statistics on the number, distribution and/or flow of people or devices in a geographic region based on active wireless device counts are described. Wireless...
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7054653 |
Two channel communication system based on RDS datastream broadcasting and the integration of digital mobile terminal and VHF/FM radio receiver
The present invention comprises a digital mobile terminal system for accessing mobile internet services including a VHF/AM/FM radio receiver and a subsystem that handles interfaces and interactions...
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7050756 |
Phone enabled direct response
An acoustic transmission is retransmitted by telephone to a network operations center over one path. The network operations center receives acoustic transmissions containing inaudible marks from...
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7039930 |
Television advertising automated billing system
Advertising is marked with a code in a way which makes it difficult to fool the system. The advertising is marked with a code at the time the advertising is produced. Then, when the advertising is...
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7036136 |
Bias compensating remote audience survey system and method
A bias compensating remote audience survey system ( 34 ) is configured to identify radio stations ( 162 ) to which tuners ( 24 ) are tuned. The tuners ( 24 ) have predetermined signals ( 26 )...
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7000019 |
Establishment of a deferred network communication session
A method is provided of establishing network communication later in time between a first endpoint entity accessing an information resource over a network and a second endpoint entity, such as a...
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6999715 |
Broadcast audience surveillance using intercepted audio
Calls made from mobile or cellular telephones may contain audio signals from broadcasts audible to the caller. Thus, a call made into a call center, perhaps to gain valuable information, such as...
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6990312 |
Method and system for interactive digital radio broadcasting and music distribution
A method and system for providing easier listener access to information about musical works and other audio programming broadcast by a digital radio station includes broadcasting contextual...
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6961556 |
Apparatus and method for an enhanced PCS communication system
The vertical blanking interval (“VBI”) of a video signal is used in broadband communications including digital data transmission on the VBI or a dual VBI/PCS system capable of enhancing rapid...
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6937870 |
Wireless interactive transaction system
A method and system for enabling automatic or semi-automatic interactive responses to electronic queries using audio-band coded data as the query medium and wireless data communications as the...
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6928278 |
Authentic person identification
In a communication system which can privately inform each applicant of an outcome of a game or an examination, a cell phone with a cell phone number is used to transmit, to a center or a promoter,...
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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...
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6839503 |
Transfer apparatus and recording control system using a transfer control method selected based on a transfer rate of data
A transfer apparatus for transferring data which achieves balancing in profit and loss between a proprietor of copyright and a user includes an instruction section for providing an instruction of a...
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6813475 |
Interference attenuating remote audience survey system and method
An interference attenuating remote audience survey system ( 42 ) is configured to identify radio stations ( 84 ) to which tuners ( 26 ) are tuned, the tuners ( 26 ) having local oscillator (LO)...
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6792244 |
System and method for the accurate collection of end-user opinion data for applications on a wireless network
A system, method, and computer program for collecting end-user opinions of applications and data in a wireless communications network. The system identifies the end-user who has downloaded software...
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6768895 |
Method and system for the control of voting by telephone
A system and method for controlling telephone voting in a digital mobile communication network that includes a plurality of mobile subscriber communication stations provides for automated,...
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6754635 |
Method and apparatus for automating the conduct of surveys over a network system
A method and apparatus for automating surveys over a network system causes an interface to be displayed to a particular client of the network system. This interface can be used by the particular...
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6684054 |
System and method for detecting harmonics of RF broadcast station survey signals
A survey system ( 52, 154 ) is configured to identify radio stations ( 92 ) to which tuners ( 26 ) are tuned. The tuners ( 26 ) have predetermined signals ( 30 ) emitted therefrom. In one...
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6674993 |
Method and system for identifying data locations associated with real world observations
A method and system for identifying data locations or uniform resource locators associated with physical observations in the real world. The method and system includes selecting certain physical...
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6643494 |
Active system and method for detecting harmonics of RF broadcast station survey signals
An active broadcast survey system ( 32 ) is configured to identify radio stations ( 216 ) to which tuners ( 26 ) are tuned. The tuners ( 26 ) have local oscillator signals ( 30 ) emitted therefrom....
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6523175 |
Methods and apparatus for identifying the source of a user selected signal via an intermediate frequency probe
A non-invasive or minimally invasive intermediate frequency (I.F.) probe is disclosed for use as part of a broadcast audience measurement system. The probe can be used both to acquire a...
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6467089 |
Audience measurement system incorporating a mobile handset
An audience measurement system for a receiver comprises monitoring equipment, such as a decoder, ON/OFF detector and transmitter, coupled to the receiver. The decoder reads program codes embedded...
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6466765 |
Portable radio listening status recorder
A portable recorder which is carried by a sample subject for a radio listener rating survey has a display unit and an input unit mounted on the front of a case and a processor built in the case....
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6424816 |
Statistical communication link
A communications system ( 34 ) that monitors a state of a plurality of radios ( 10 ). In one embodiment, the communications system ( 34 ) automatically and continuously monitors the number of...
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6389593 |
Method of and apparatus for controlling transmission of information on programs
A program-related-information transmission control method adopted on a data distributing side for transmitting program related information for programs to be broadcasted to a data receiving side by...
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6381513 |
Electronic information distributing terminal equipment
Herein disclosed is an electronic information distributing terminal equipment for storing and distributing the electronic information containing a text information and a corresponding motion image...
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6356939 |
Interactive theater and feature presentation system
A interactive system ( 10 ) for presenting information to members of an audience includes a main server ( 11 ) connected to a slave server ( 13 ), a video projector ( 19 ) connected to the slaver...
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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...
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6311190 |
System for conducting surveys in different languages over a network with survey voter registration
A system for conducting surveys to voters in multiple different languages and registering voters is provided over a network, such as the Internet. The system includes a programmed computer system...
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6286005 |
Method and apparatus for analyzing data and advertising optimization
The most preferred embodiment of the present invention is a computer-based decision support system that includes three main components: a database mining engine (DME); an advertising optimization...
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6112053 |
Television viewership monitoring system employing audio channel and synchronization information
The present invention provides an system, apparatus, and method of recording a viewer's television viewership habits. Sensors passively monitor the audio signal and video signal emanating from the...
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5913204 |
Method and apparatus for surveying music listener opinion about songs
A method and apparatus for surveying and reporting listener opinion of a list of songs such as the songs comprising a radio station music library. A group of music listeners is selected from whom...
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5896554 |
Status monitoring apparatus for car radio
A monitoring apparatus for the use status of a car radio is disclosed. In addition to the function of identifying a radio station to which the car radio is tuned at any given time, the present...
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5884140 |
Information distributing system with sub-stations transmitting broadcast information by wireless and terminals receiving the information
An information distribution system for distributing information, containing: a first station for transmitting a first signal carrying information to at least one second station; the at least one...
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5839050 |
System for determining radio listenership
A remote radio listenership monitoring system including a digitally tuned scanning receiver disposed in an area adjacent to automobiles carrying radio receivers which radiate intermediate frequency...
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5826164 |
Technique for surveying a radio or a television audience
A surveying technique transmits a combined signal made up of a programming signal and a surveying signal, both of which are in the audible range. The surveying signal is uniquely coded to identify...
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5819155 |
Active system and method for remotely identifying RF broadcast stations
A survey electronics package (32) of a survey system (10) includes a transmitter (36) and a receiver (38). The transmitter (36) transmits a survey signal which a radio (12) residing in a detection...
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5768680 |
Media monitor
The instant invention is an electronic audio monitor and recording device designed to be worn upon the person, in connection with audience research systems, for purposes of capturing special...
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