Interactive video distribution systems – Use surveying or monitoring – By passively monitoring receiver operation
Reexamination Certificate
2011-06-07
2011-06-07
Pendleton, Brian T (Department: 2425)
Interactive video distribution systems
Use surveying or monitoring
By passively monitoring receiver operation
C725S014000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07958526
ABSTRACT:
A system identifies which of first and second signal sources is supplying a program signal to a monitored receiver. The first and second signal sources and the monitored receiver are located in a household. The system extracts a reference program signature representative of an output of the monitored receiver and first and second source program signatures representative of an output of the first and second signal sources. The system identifies which of the first and second signal sources is a source of the program signal in response to the reference program signature and the first and second source program signatures.
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Lu Daozheng
Wheeler Henry B.
Hanley Flight & Zimmerman LLC
Pendleton Brian T
Saint Cyr Jean D
The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
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