US 8,296,791 C1 (13,189th)
Media usage monitoring and measurement system and method
Jonathan S. Steuer, New York, NY (US); and Christopher Otto, Fremont, CA (US)
Filed by Jonathan S. Steuer, New York, NY (US); and Christopher Otto, Fremont, CA (US)
Assigned to ANONYMOUS MEDIA RESEARCH HOLDINGS, LLC
Reexamination Request No. 90/019,955, May 12, 2025.
Reexamination Certificate for Patent 8,296,791, issued Oct. 23, 2012, Appl. No. 12/283,355, Sep. 11, 2008.
Application 90/019,955 is a division of application No. 11/139,330, filed on May 26, 2005, abandoned.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/574,836, filed on May 27, 2004.
Ex Parte Reexamination Certificate issued on Feb. 23, 2026.
Int. Cl. H04H 60/33 (2008.01); G06Q 30/0242 (2023.01); H04H 60/37 (2008.01); H04L 65/611 (2022.01); H04L 65/75 (2022.01); H04L 67/50 (2022.01)
CPC H04H 60/37 (2013.01) [G06Q 30/0246 (2013.01); H04L 65/611 (2022.05); H04L 65/765 (2022.05); H04L 67/535 (2022.05); H04H 60/33 (2013.01)]
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AS A RESULT OF REEXAMINATION, IT HAS BEEN DETERMINED THAT:
The patentability of claims 1-7 and 9-11 is confirmed.
Claim 8 was not reexamined.
1. A media measurement method comprising:
using one or more computers to generating generate a play stream of content identification results corresponding to a sequence of submitted data samples, the submitted data samples corresponding to audio data samples captured at a monitoring device associated with a monitored audience member; and
using one or more computers to utilize sample sequence data and content offset data to deduce play-altering actions of the monitored audience member, the sample sequence data corresponding to a sequence of the content identification results, the content offset data including content offsets associated with the content identification results, a content offset indicating a time position of a content identification result within identified content, wherein to utilize comprises, for a particular plurality of submitted data samples and corresponding content identification results, comparing a progression of log times associated with capture timing of each of the particular plurality of submitted data samples and a progression of content offsets of the corresponding content identification results.