Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Discount or incentive
Reexamination Certificate
2008-04-22
2008-04-22
Fischer, Andrew J. (Department: 3621)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Discount or incentive
C705S080000, C705S404000, C713S168000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07363244
ABSTRACT:
Given the recent changes in the policy governing Internet content distribution, such as the institution of per listener royalties for Internet radio broadcasters, content distributors now have an incentive to under-report the size of their audience. Previous audience measurement schemes only protect against inflation of audience size. We present the first protocols for audience measurement that protect against both inflation and deflation attempts by content distributors. The protocols trade-off the amount of additional information the service providers must distribute to facilitate audience inference with the amount of infrastructure required and are applicable to Internet radio, web plagiarism, and software license enforcement. The protocols can be applied to other situations, such as auditing website screen scrapers and per-seat licensed software installations.
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Johnson Robert T.
Staddon Jessica N.
Agwumezie Charlie C. L.
Fischer Andrew J.
Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated
Park, Vaughn & Fleming LLP
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