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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jean M. Goldschmidt Iki, San Jose, CA (US);
Anthony Alexander Shah-Nazaroff, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Christopher D. Williams, Soquel, CA (US);
Kathleen Lane, Los Altos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/00 ; H04N 7/10 ; H04H 1/00 ; H04H 1/02 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/00 ; H04N 7/10 ; H04H 1/00 ; H04H 1/02 ;
Abstract
A method for monitoring viewing of broadcast data includes detecting a lead tag corresponding to a program in the broadcast data. The broadcast data is monitored for a tail tag corresponding to the program. Whether the program was viewed in its entirety is determined by matching the lead tag with the tail tag.