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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2004
Paul M. Mears, Safety Harbor, FL (US);
Arun Ramaswamy, Tampa, FL (US);
Venugopal Srinivasan, Palm Harbor, FL (US);
Dan Nelson, Tampa, FL (US);
Kevin K. Deng, Safety Harbor, FL (US);
John Peiffer, New Port Richey, FL (US);
Paul M. Mears, Safety Harbor, FL (US);
Arun Ramaswamy, Tampa, FL (US);
Venugopal Srinivasan, Palm Harbor, FL (US);
Dan Nelson, Tampa, FL (US);
Kevin K. Deng, Safety Harbor, FL (US);
John Peiffer, New Port Richey, FL (US);
The Nielsen Company (US), LLC., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus to collect audience information associated with a media presentation are described herein. In an example method, a first media metering device associated with a media presentation device monitors for a presence of one or more other media metering devices and a monitoring operation of the first media metering device is halted based on the presence of the one or more other media metering devices.