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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 2010
Filed:
May. 23, 2007
David L. Debusk, Nashville, TN (US);
Darren P. Briggs, Nashville, TN (US);
Richard Wardwell, Nashville, TN (US);
David A. Gilbert, Nashville, TN (US);
Jack E. Jenkins, Antioch, TN (US);
Paul P. Griffin, Jr., Nashville, TN (US);
Fredric I. Graham, Nashville, TN (US);
George Anderson Cook, Nashville, TN (US);
Dustin Withers, Hermitage, TN (US);
David L. DeBusk, Nashville, TN (US);
Darren P. Briggs, Nashville, TN (US);
Richard Wardwell, Nashville, TN (US);
David A. Gilbert, Nashville, TN (US);
Jack E. Jenkins, Antioch, TN (US);
Paul P. Griffin, Jr., Nashville, TN (US);
Fredric I. Graham, Nashville, TN (US);
George Anderson Cook, Nashville, TN (US);
Dustin Withers, Hermitage, TN (US);
Landmark Digital Services, LLC, Nashville, TN (US);
Abstract
A media content monitoring system uses a rack adapted to receive multiple carrier boards to improve the system's ability to be configured to specific applications. Each carrier board contains tuner modules for receiving AM/FM broadcasts, satellite radio broadcasts, TV audio broadcasts, HD, IBOC, DAB and DRM digital radio broadcasts, etc. The tuner modules produce a USB output that is combined by a USB hub on the carrier boards into a single USB output. The carrier board outputs are in turn combined by a rack based USB hub into single USB output that is provided to a host computer. The host computer includes content identification software that automatically identifies selected media content received by the tuner modules and stores the selected content in a database. The host computer can send control codes to the tuner modules to alter their reception parameters.