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WO2001061892A3
WO2001061892A3 PCT/US2001/005104 US0105104W WO0161892A3 WO 2001061892 A3 WO2001061892 A3 WO 2001061892A3 US 0105104 W US0105104 W US 0105104W WO 0161892 A3 WO0161892 A3 WO 0161892A3
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audience measurement
digital broadcasts
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Leslie Richard Rolton
Gavin Leslie Denby
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Acnielsen Corp
Leslie Richard Rolton
Gavin Leslie Denby
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Priority to NZ521111A priority patent/NZ521111A/en
Priority to EP01914390A priority patent/EP1256196A2/en
Priority to MXPA02008026A priority patent/MXPA02008026A/en
Priority to BR0108443-7A priority patent/BR0108443A/en
Priority to AU2001239783A priority patent/AU2001239783A1/en
Priority to CA002400210A priority patent/CA2400210A1/en
Publication of WO2001061892A2 publication Critical patent/WO2001061892A2/en
Publication of WO2001061892A3 publication Critical patent/WO2001061892A3/en
Priority to NO20023815A priority patent/NO20023815L/en
Priority to FI20021472A priority patent/FI20021472A/en

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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N7/00—Television systems
    • H04N7/16—Analogue secrecy systems; Analogue subscription systems
    • H04N7/173—Analogue secrecy systems; Analogue subscription systems with two-way working, e.g. subscriber sending a programme selection signal
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/43—Processing of content or additional data, e.g. demultiplexing additional data from a digital video stream; Elementary client operations, e.g. monitoring of home network or synchronising decoder's clock; Client middleware
    • H04N21/442—Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. detecting the failure of a recording device, monitoring the downstream bandwidth, the number of times a movie has been viewed, the storage space available from the internal hard disk
    • H04N21/44213—Monitoring of end-user related data
    • H04N21/44222—Analytics of user selections, e.g. selection of programs or purchase activity
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04H—BROADCAST COMMUNICATION
    • H04H60/00—Arrangements for broadcast applications with a direct linking to broadcast information or broadcast space-time; Broadcast-related systems
    • H04H60/09—Arrangements for device control with a direct linkage to broadcast information or to broadcast space-time; Arrangements for control of broadcast-related services
    • H04H60/13—Arrangements for device control affected by the broadcast information
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04H—BROADCAST COMMUNICATION
    • H04H60/00—Arrangements for broadcast applications with a direct linking to broadcast information or broadcast space-time; Broadcast-related systems
    • H04H60/35—Arrangements for identifying or recognising characteristics with a direct linkage to broadcast information or to broadcast space-time, e.g. for identifying broadcast stations or for identifying users
    • H04H60/38—Arrangements for identifying or recognising characteristics with a direct linkage to broadcast information or to broadcast space-time, e.g. for identifying broadcast stations or for identifying users for identifying broadcast time or space
    • H04H60/41—Arrangements for identifying or recognising characteristics with a direct linkage to broadcast information or to broadcast space-time, e.g. for identifying broadcast stations or for identifying users for identifying broadcast time or space for identifying broadcast space, i.e. broadcast channels, broadcast stations or broadcast areas
    • H04H60/43—Arrangements for identifying or recognising characteristics with a direct linkage to broadcast information or to broadcast space-time, e.g. for identifying broadcast stations or for identifying users for identifying broadcast time or space for identifying broadcast space, i.e. broadcast channels, broadcast stations or broadcast areas for identifying broadcast channels
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/20—Servers specifically adapted for the distribution of content, e.g. VOD servers; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/25—Management operations performed by the server for facilitating the content distribution or administrating data related to end-users or client devices, e.g. end-user or client device authentication, learning user preferences for recommending movies
    • H04N21/258—Client or end-user data management, e.g. managing client capabilities, user preferences or demographics, processing of multiple end-users preferences to derive collaborative data
    • H04N21/25866—Management of end-user data
    • H04N21/25891—Management of end-user data being end-user preferences
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/43—Processing of content or additional data, e.g. demultiplexing additional data from a digital video stream; Elementary client operations, e.g. monitoring of home network or synchronising decoder's clock; Client middleware
    • H04N21/44—Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing a video clip retrieved from local storage with an incoming video stream or rendering scenes according to encoded video stream scene graphs
    • H04N21/44008—Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing a video clip retrieved from local storage with an incoming video stream or rendering scenes according to encoded video stream scene graphs involving operations for analysing video streams, e.g. detecting features or characteristics in the video stream
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/60—Network structure or processes for video distribution between server and client or between remote clients; Control signalling between clients, server and network components; Transmission of management data between server and client, e.g. sending from server to client commands for recording incoming content stream; Communication details between server and client 
    • H04N21/65—Transmission of management data between client and server
    • H04N21/658—Transmission by the client directed to the server
    • H04N21/6582—Data stored in the client, e.g. viewing habits, hardware capabilities, credit card number
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/80—Generation or processing of content or additional data by content creator independently of the distribution process; Content per se
    • H04N21/83—Generation or processing of protective or descriptive data associated with content; Content structuring
    • H04N21/835—Generation of protective data, e.g. certificates
    • H04N21/8352—Generation of protective data, e.g. certificates involving content or source identification data, e.g. Unique Material Identifier [UMID]

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  • Testing, Inspecting, Measuring Of Stereoscopic Televisions And Televisions (AREA)
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Abstract

A method is disclosed wherein audience measurement data for digital broadcasts, both program lineup verification and statistical audience samples, are collected from data added by the broadcaster for this purpose. A coded channel ID (102) and other program identification data (104) is placed in the service ID stream and the decoder or receiving device is directed to output this data to the device's communication port. A probe (106) attached to the communication port is disclosed whereby this data is extracted and decoded for use by a data collection system (108) in statistically selected homes for accurate audience measurement of digital programming.
PCT/US2001/005104 2000-02-18 2001-02-16 Audience measurement system and method for digital broadcasts WO2001061892A2 (en)

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JP2001560568A JP2003523692A (en) 2000-02-18 2001-02-16 Audience measurement system and method for digital broadcasting
NZ521111A NZ521111A (en) 2000-02-18 2001-02-16 Audience measurement system and method for digital broadcasts
EP01914390A EP1256196A2 (en) 2000-02-18 2001-02-16 Audience measurement system and method for digital broadcasts
MXPA02008026A MXPA02008026A (en) 2000-02-18 2001-02-16 Audience measurement system and method for digital broadcasts.
BR0108443-7A BR0108443A (en) 2000-02-18 2001-02-16 Audience measurement system and method for digital transmissions
AU2001239783A AU2001239783A1 (en) 2000-02-18 2001-02-16 Audience measurement system and method for digital broadcasts
CA002400210A CA2400210A1 (en) 2000-02-18 2001-02-16 Audience measurement system and method for digital broadcasts
NO20023815A NO20023815L (en) 2000-02-18 2002-08-12 Audience measurement system and digital broadcasting method
FI20021472A FI20021472A (en) 2000-02-18 2002-08-13 Audience measurement system and procedure for digital broadcasting

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