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8181194 Cooperative system for measuring electronic media  
A media measurement system uses media handlers to obtain information from presented media for collection by research data collection agents and dispatch to a controller. The controller registers...
8181195 Anonymous aggregated data collection  
An anonymous aggregated data collection system aggregates media access information in an anonymous data collection component without associating the media access information with any one particular...
8176506 Predictive content presentation  
A system may automatically send a request for a list of programs over a network, obtain, in response to the request, a user profile that includes a list of programs that a viewer has accessed, send...
8176518 Systems and methods for providing fantasy sports contests based on subevents  
Fantasy sports contests based on segments of a single sports event. A segment or subevent may be a portion of a single sports event. The users choose a roster of selections to form an fantasy...
8176510 Systems and methods for detecting inconsistent user actions and providing feedback  
Systems and methods are provided for detecting inconsistent user actions and providing feedback about assets. A user may perform a first action restricting access to a first asset. The system may...
8171507 Using network server to establish TV setting  
TV settings such as brightness can be established by sending from a TV signals from an ambient light sensor to a network server, with the network server establishing settings such as brightness in...
8166497 Methods and apparatus to collect media monitoring information  
Example methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to collect metering information associated with media presented media presentation devices are disclosed. A disclosed example system for...
8161512 Method for processing targeting descriptor in non-real-time receiver  
A method of receiving a broadcast signal including a Non-Real-Time (NRT) Receiver Targeting service is disclosed herein. A method of receiving a broadcast signal including a Non-Real-Time (NRT)...
8161513 Method for receiving a broadcast signal and broadcast receiver  
A method of receiving a broadcast signal including a Non-Real-Time (NRT) service and a broadcast receiver are disclosed herein. A method of receiving a broadcast signal including an NRT service,...
8160549 Mood-based messaging  
A method for social interacting, including using a portable messaging device for designating, from time to time, a plurality of friends, selecting a mood, sending one or more representations of the...
8156524 Content preference calculation method and content reception apparatus  
A content preference degree calculating method and system that calculates preference degrees of viewers to contents such as broadcast programs in conformity with the actual viewing pattern. In a...
8154665 Broadcast receiver  
A broadcast receiver in which a digital broadcasting and an analog broadcasting can be received includes a judgment unit for judging that the analog broadcasting is terminated when a preset...
8156517 Methods and apparatus to enforce a power off state of an audience measurement device during shipping  
Methods and apparatus to enforce a power off state of an audience measurement device during shipping of the device are disclosed herein. An example portable audience measurement device includes a...
8151292 System for remote access to media, and reaction and survey data from viewers of the media  
Embodiments are described that enable remote and interactive access, navigation, and analysis of reactions from viewers to a media instance. The reactions include physiological responses, survey...
8151291 Methods and apparatus to meter content exposure using closed caption information  
Methods and apparatus to meter content exposure using closed caption information are disclosed. An example method comprises developing a keyword database of terms based on program guide descriptive...
8131708 Methods and systems for monitoring and tracking videos on the internet  
Method and system for discovering and identifying a video object. The method includes crawling at least one predetermined website, discovering at least one video link at the predetermined website,...
8132200 Intra-video ratings  
A system and method is provided for receiving and displaying voting data with respect to online hosted videos. Viewers vote on portions within various videos stored in an online video hosting...
8122464 Methods and apparatus to monitor media content on a consumer network  
Example methods and apparatus to monitor media content on a consumer network as described herein. An example metering system includes a metering device to monitor the consumption of media content...
8122465 Watermarking to set video usage permissions  
A digital watermark in video includes a plural-bit payload that sets different permissions governing usage of the video. One bit, for example, may flag whether fast-forwarding of the video is...
8122470 Method for providing an electronic program guide based on user preference data  
An apparatus such as a television signal receiver provides an electronic program guide based on user preference data collected at different time intervals in a day. According to an exemplary...
8122469 Assisted user control in recommenders  
A method and arrangement for modifying settings of a television program recommender displays the rating (recommended or not recommended) for a selected television program, and also displays icons...
8117633 Communication apparatus and its control method and program  
In a network including a source of video contents and a playback terminal to receive video contents distributed from the source of video contents and play back the video contents, information on...
8112774 On demand dynamic advertisement insertion in an internet protocol stream  
A computer implemented method, computer program product, and data processing system for managing advertisements in an Internet Protocol (IP) streaming environment by defining a viewership...
8112301 Using consumer purchase behavior for television targeting  
In various embodiments, strategies, tools and techniques are provided for using consumer purchaser behavior for targeting delivery of content to consumers through television and other media. An...
8112511 Network resource monitoring and measurement system and method  
A method and system for analyzing and measuring multiple sources of data over a communications network (18) so as to ascertain information or usage of one or more resources, such as resource...
8108886 Receiving apparatus and receiving method, broadcasting apparatus and broadcasting method, information processing apparatus and information processing method, bidirectional communication system and bidirectional communication method, and providing medium  
When the user of a receiving apparatus presses a notice button provided for a remote controller to indicate the preference concerning the person or thing appearing on the screen of the program...
8108542 Method and apparatus to determine broadcast content and scheduling in a broadcast system  
A broadcast system, method and apparatus providing content on demand. In one embodiment, the disclosed broadcast system includes a server that broadcasts meta-data to a plurality of clients. The...
8108861 Information management apparatus and method, recording medium, as well as program for scheduling a recording of an event  
An information management apparatus presents an unexpected event to all users. This apparatus displays time ranges of scheduled events from the start time to the end time along a time axis based on...
8103546 Advertising content delivery  
Programming media and advertising media may be presented in a manner that approximates or equals a target ratio. In one implementation, a total temporal length of one or more programming media...
8104066 User identification and prioritization using Bluetooth  
In certain implementations, a method of automatically changing an attribute defining operation of a television system involves determining that a plurality of short range radio frequency (RF)...
8099749 Viewer data collection system and method for use in a direct broadcast satellite television network  
A system and method for collecting viewership data. The inventive system (10) is adapted to receive a signal having multiple channels of program content and associated channel identification...
8091104 Method and apparatus for storing broadcast program  
A method and apparatus for storing a broadcast program are provided. The apparatus includes: a signal processing unit which generates an audio/video (A/V) file, an application file, and a first...
8091102 Methods and systems that motivate tuning to a transmission channel for a time period  
Systems and methods are provided for motivating a user to watch a television channel for a predetermined period of time and enabling access to a media asset related to a program provided on the...
8087042 Methods and apparatus to detect an internally generated signal mode of a local media playback device  
Methods and apparatus to detect an internally generated signal mode of a local media playback device are disclosed. A disclosed method comprises tuning a harmonic frequency of a chrominance signal...
8069459 Method, apparatus and computer-readable medium for promoting television programs  
A method, which comprises: receiving from a provider of a first content stream an indication of a promotional time slot to be rendered available on the first content stream; accessing a program...
8065697 Methods and apparatus to determine audience viewing of recorded programs  
Methods and apparatus to determine audience viewing of recorded programs are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein comprises displaying a previously recorded program on a display,...
8065703 Reporting of user equipment selected content delivery  
A system and method is provided for use in connection with delivering content that is targeted to users of a broadcast network. In order to select content that is targeted to users of the broadcast...
8060398 Using consumer purchase behavior for television targeting  
In various embodiments, strategies, tools and techniques are provided for processing and analyzing data in an advertising measurement system accessible through a software-as-a-service model or a...
8051444 Targeted television advertisements selected on the basis of an online user profile and presented with television programs or channels related to that profile  
In an automatic, computer-implemented method, a selected television advertisement is presented automatically in association with a television program or channel. A relationship is identified...
8045762 Surveying method, surveying system and surveying data processing program  
There are provided a step of acquiring a main point cloud data on a predetermined measurement range by a laser scanner, a step of detecting a range with no data acquired, a step of acquiring a...
8046787 Method and system for the storage, viewing management, and delivery of targeted advertising  
A method for managing television advertisements. The method includes determining if a subscriber has reached a minimum level of advertisement viewing and curtailing the service level of the...
8046798 Profiling and identification of television viewers  
Profiling a television viewer by monitoring and processing, locally at a television viewing environment, the viewer's interactivity (e.g., via a remote control unit) with the television viewing...
8040237 Methods and apparatus to detect carrying of a portable audience measurement device  
Methods and apparatus to detect carrying of a portable audience measurement device are disclosed herein. An example portable audience measurement device includes a housing; a media detector in the...
8037505 System and method for providing popular TV shows on demand  
Various embodiments of the disclosed subject matter provide methods and systems to automatically identify popular television programs based on the viewing of broadcast television programs by at...
8031594 System and method of providing communications services  
Disclosed are a system and method of providing communications services. In a particular embodiment, the method includes receiving data related to an attainable bandwidth of a communications loop...
8032914 Systems and methods for dynamically allocating bandwidth in a digital broadband delivery system  
Systems and methods for dynamically allocating bandwidth in a digital broadband delivery system are disclosed. One example method includes receiving information describing subscriber requests for...
8028312 Information processing apparatus and content registration method, and program  
The present invention registers a content so that its composition can be easily recognized, and promotes the reduction of a load in playing processing on the registered content, and improves...
8023882 Portable audience measurement architectures and methods for portable audience measurement  
Portable audience measurement architectures and methods for portable audience measurement are disclosed. A disclosed system contains a plurality of portable measurement devices configured to...
8020179 Methods and apparatus to adaptively select sensor(s) to gather audience measurement data based on a variable system factor and a quantity of data collectible by the sensors  
Methods and apparatus to adaptively gather audience information data are disclosed. The disclosed methods and apparatus monitor system factor(s) and select one or more sensors from a plurality of...
8019162 Methods and apparatus for detecting on-screen media sources  
Methods and apparatus for detecting on-screen media sources are disclosed. An example method includes monitoring a region of interest of a video signal for a first image, comparing the first image...
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