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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2014
The Nielsen Company (Us), Llc, Schaumburg, IL (US);
Arun Ramaswamy, Tampa, FL (US);
Douglas B. Turnbow, Odessa, FL (US);
The Nielsen Company (US), LLC, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for metering media feeds in a market are disclosed. An example method includes duplicating a first audio stream in a media feed to generate a second audio stream, encoding the first audio stream with a first breakout code, encoding the second audio stream with a second breakout code different from the first breakout code, combining the first audio stream, the second audio stream, and a video stream of the media to generate an encoded transport stream, and instructing, via a processor, a media receiver to tune to the transport stream and select the second audio stream for distribution to a media presentation location on a channel associated with the second breakout code.