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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 2016

Filed:

Dec. 04, 2014
Applicant:

The Nielsen Company (Us), Llc, Schaumburg, IL (US);

Inventors:

Charles Clinton Conklin, New Port Richey, FL (US);

James J. Vitt, Palm Harbor, FL (US);

Cheuk Wan Chan, Tarpon Springs, FL (US);

Min Zhang, Land O Lakes, FL (US);

Assignee:

The Nielsen Company (US), LLC, New York, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04H 60/32 (2008.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/442 (2013.01); H04H 60/32 (2013.01);
Abstract

Power management methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture for audience measurement meters are disclosed. Example methods disclosed herein include obtaining presentation device state data representing an activation state of a media presentation device that is to present received media and is monitored by an audience measurement meter, the presentation device state data including time information. Such disclosed example methods also include determining whether to fault audience measurement data reported by the audience measurement meter based on the presentation device state data and power outage information determined from the audience measurement data.


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