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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:
Dec. 06, 2022

Filed:

Jun. 09, 2020
Applicant:

The Nielsen Company (Us), Llc, New York, NY (US);

Inventor:

John Houston, New York, NY (US);

Assignee:

The Nielsen Company (US), LLC, New York, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/10 (2013.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01); G06Q 50/18 (2012.01); H04N 21/258 (2011.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04N 21/658 (2011.01); H04H 60/14 (2008.01); H04H 60/31 (2008.01); H04N 7/173 (2011.01); H04N 21/8355 (2011.01); H04N 21/4627 (2011.01); H04N 21/835 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/105 (2013.01); G06Q 50/00 (2013.01); G06Q 50/184 (2013.01); H04H 60/14 (2013.01); H04H 60/31 (2013.01); H04N 7/173 (2013.01); H04N 21/25866 (2013.01); H04N 21/442 (2013.01); H04N 21/44204 (2013.01); H04N 21/4627 (2013.01); H04N 21/6582 (2013.01); H04N 21/835 (2013.01); H04N 21/8355 (2013.01); G06Q 2220/10 (2013.01); G06Q 2220/18 (2013.01);
Abstract

Digital rights management systems and methods for audience measurement are disclosed. Example methods disclosed herein include enabling a media handler implemented by a media device to begin presenting first media based on a first digital license associated with the first media. Such example methods also include retrieving a second digital license different from the first digital license from a license server separate from the media device. Such example methods further include causing the media handler to perform a first media monitoring operation based on the second digital license, the first media monitoring operation being deactivated by default.


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