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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2018
The Nielsen Company (Us), Llc, New York, NY (US);
Girish Khavasi, Lake Hiawatha, NJ (US);
The Nielsen Company (US), LLC, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Example methods and apparatus to measure exposure to broadcast signals having embedded data are disclosed. An example broadcast signal exposure meter includes a first decoder to obtain an identifier of a broadcast station from an audio signal output by an end user broadcast receiver, a radio to tune to a broadcast signal from the broadcast station associated with the identifier of the broadcast station, a second decoder to obtain embedded data from the broadcast signal, the embedded data representing media contained in the broadcast signal, and an interface to provide the embedded data to a server, the server to determine audience measurement information for the media based on the provided embedded data.