Telecommunications – Audience survey or program distribution use accounting
Patent
1997-01-14
1998-10-06
Grant, Chris
Telecommunications
Audience survey or program distribution use accounting
348 1, 348552, 345327, H04N 716
Patent
active
058191569
ABSTRACT:
A TV/PC convergence device, operable in a television mode, a computer mode and a combination television/computer mode, includes a display, a computer and a tracking device. The display receives and displays images in all three modes. The computer executes programs and is operable in the computer mode and the combination television/computer mode. The tracking device, which is coupled to the display and computer, tracks, records, and reports select uses of the display and the computer during each of the television mode, the computer mode and the combination television/computer mode.
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