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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2020

Filed:

Apr. 23, 2019
Applicant:

Drive Time Metrics, Inc., Jamestown, RI (US);

Inventors:

Robert J. Maccini, Jamestown, RI (US);

Roderick MacKenzie, Ft. Lauderdale, FL (US);

Joseph V. Gallagher, Newport, RI (US);

Rafael Saavedra, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Peter Williams, Belmont, CA (US);

Assignee:

Drive Time Metrics, Inc., Jamestown, RI (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04H 60/33 (2008.01); H04W 4/48 (2018.01); H04H 60/88 (2008.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01); G06F 21/60 (2013.01); G06F 16/23 (2019.01); G06F 16/48 (2019.01); H04L 9/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/22 (2013.01); G06F 16/2365 (2019.01); G06F 16/48 (2019.01); G06F 21/602 (2013.01); H04H 60/33 (2013.01); H04H 60/88 (2013.01); H04L 9/0637 (2013.01); H04L 9/3242 (2013.01); H04W 4/48 (2018.02);
Abstract

A method and system for measuring and analyzing in vehicle media consumption and user interaction with a vehicle through an in vehicle entertainment system located in the vehicle. The in vehicle entertainment system receives media content. The method and system monitors both the media content and user interaction with the vehicle with content and interaction measurement software stored in the storage of the head unit of the vehicle as a module on the in vehicle entertainment system. The content measurement software directly records data relative to the media content being played or user interaction, in real time, as a data set and transmits the data set relative to the media content being played and user interaction to at least one immutable distributed ledger. The data set includes at least the local time of the start of the media content or the user interaction and is hashed.


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