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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2013
The Nielsen Company (Us), Llc, New York, NY (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, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus to collect audience information associated with a media presentation are described herein. An example method includes detecting, at a base meter located in proximity to a media presentation device, registration information from a portable metering device within proximity of the base meter, the registration information identifying a user associated with the portable metering device. A content identifier associated with media presented by the media presentation device is determined. A polling query is sent to the portable metering device for presentation to the user. A response to the polling query, the registration information, and the content identifier are communicated to a data collection facility.