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Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2025

Filed:

Jun. 30, 2021
Applicant:

Telecom Italia S.p.a., Milan, IT;

Inventor:

Alberto Ciarniello, Rome, IT;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04H 60/51 (2008.01); H04H 60/37 (2008.01); H04H 60/45 (2008.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04H 60/375 (2013.01); H04H 60/45 (2013.01); H04H 2201/20 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method is disclosed for monitoring the audience of an advertisement over a content distribution system, the advertisement comprising an advertising message associated with an audio content. The method comprises: inserting, within the message, an advertising identifier associated with the advertisement and distributing the audio content with the advertising message to a user of the content distribution system; at a first user device configured to receive the audio content, playing the audio content with the advertising message; at a second user device connected to the first user device and configured to communicate with a data collection server over a data communication network, retrieving a customer identifier uniquely associated with the user; and, during or after playing, sending by the second user device the customer identifier and the advertising identifier extracted from the advertising message to the server to monitor the audience of the advertising message.


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