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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2009
Daozheng LU, Dunedin, FL (US);
David H. Harkness, Wilton, CT (US);
Manish Bhatia, Secaucus, NJ (US);
Jerome Samson, Belleair Beach, FL (US);
William A. Feininger, Palm Harbor, FL (US);
Daozheng Lu, Dunedin, FL (US);
David H. Harkness, Wilton, CT (US);
Manish Bhatia, Secaucus, NJ (US);
Jerome Samson, Belleair Beach, FL (US);
William A. Feininger, Palm Harbor, FL (US);
The Nielsen Company (US), LLC, Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
A metering system meters usage of on-line and local services by way of interactive service devices. An example metering system includes a first data acquisition module configured to copy usage data associated with a first interactive service device and a second data acquisition module configured to copy usage data associated with a second interactive service device different than the first interactive service device. Each of the data acquisition modules is configured to distinguish between on-line communications associated with access to an on-line service and local communications associated with a local application program. In addition, each data acquisition module is configured to extract the usage data based whether an on-line communication or a local communication is identified.