COMPLIANCE INCENTIVES FOR AUDIENCE MONITORING/RECORDING DEVICES

Patent №

US 5,483,276

Granted

1996-01-09

Filed 1993

Owner

ARBITRON COMPANY, THE

Lab

AI components

1

planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

08101558

Systems and methods are provided for promoting use by an audience member of a portable broadcast exposure monitoring and/or recording device in accordance with a predetermined usage criterion. A sense signal is provided indicating whether the device is being carried with the person of the audience member, and a time signal corresponding with the sense signal is also provided. An indication to the audience member of whether the audience member's usage of the device has been in accordance with the predetermined usage criterion is provided based on the sense signal and the corresponding time signal.

PlanningH04H 60/63H04N 7/165H04H 60/32H04H 60/38H04H 60/45

AI classification

Planning0.53
AI hardware0.02
Natural language0.01
Machine learning0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Vision0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

ARBITRON COMPANY, THE

assignment · 67650406

Assignors

BROOKS, JON RANDALL, JENSEN, JAMES M., MCCONOCHIE, ROBERTA M., OSBORN, SUSAN V., PEARL, AMY E., SCHMIDT, CAROLE M., SEILER, ANN B., STOWELL, CAROL P., WHITE, THOMAS W., WONG, WYLIE

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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