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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2008
Paul M. Mears, Safety Harbor, FL (US);
Robert A. Luff, Whittman, MD (US);
Robert Joel Stokes, Palm Harbor, FL (US);
Arun Ramaswamy, Tampa, FL (US);
Charles Clinton Conklin, New Port Richey, FL (US);
Brian Scott Mello, Oldsmar, FL (US);
Seth Alan Pelletier, New Port Richey, FL (US);
Perry Joseph Fisch, Palm Harbor, FL (US);
Paul M. Mears, Safety Harbor, FL (US);
Robert A. Luff, Whittman, MD (US);
Robert Joel Stokes, Palm Harbor, FL (US);
Arun Ramaswamy, Tampa, FL (US);
Charles Clinton Conklin, New Port Richey, FL (US);
Brian Scott Mello, Oldsmar, FL (US);
Seth Alan Pelletier, New Port Richey, FL (US);
Perry Joseph Fisch, Palm Harbor, FL (US);
The Nielsen Company (US), LLC, Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
Example methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to collect metering information associated with media presented by portable and computer media presentation devices are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus includes a headset configured to be communicatively coupled to a media presentation device and a speaker coupled to the headset and configured to emit audio based on audio information received from the media presentation device. The example apparatus also includes a metering information generator coupled to the headset and configured to be communicatively coupled to the media presentation device to receive the audio information and generate metering information associated with the received audio information.