EP2756684A4 - Methods and apparatus to measure exposure to streaming media - Google Patents

Methods and apparatus to measure exposure to streaming media

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Publication number
EP2756684A4
EP2756684A4 EP12802805.7A EP12802805A EP2756684A4 EP 2756684 A4 EP2756684 A4 EP 2756684A4 EP 12802805 A EP12802805 A EP 12802805A EP 2756684 A4 EP2756684 A4 EP 2756684A4
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Prior art keywords
methods
streaming media
measure exposure
exposure
measure
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German (de)
French (fr)
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EP2756684A2 (en
Inventor
Jan Besehanic
Alan Bosworth
Arun Ramaswamy
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Nielsen Co US LLC
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Nielsen Co US LLC
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Priority claimed from US13/341,646 external-priority patent/US9210208B2/en
Priority claimed from US13/455,961 external-priority patent/US20130290508A1/en
Application filed by Nielsen Co US LLC filed Critical Nielsen Co US LLC
Publication of EP2756684A2 publication Critical patent/EP2756684A2/en
Publication of EP2756684A4 publication Critical patent/EP2756684A4/en
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    • H04H60/35—Arrangements for identifying or recognising characteristics with a direct linkage to broadcast information or to broadcast space-time, e.g. for identifying broadcast stations or for identifying users
    • H04H60/37—Arrangements for identifying or recognising characteristics with a direct linkage to broadcast information or to broadcast space-time, e.g. for identifying broadcast stations or for identifying users for identifying segments of broadcast information, e.g. scenes or extracting programme ID
    • H04H60/372—Programme
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    • H04H60/68—Systems specially adapted for using specific information, e.g. geographical or meteorological information
    • H04H60/73—Systems specially adapted for using specific information, e.g. geographical or meteorological information using meta-information
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    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/20—Servers specifically adapted for the distribution of content, e.g. VOD servers; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/23—Processing of content or additional data; Elementary server operations; Server middleware
    • H04N21/234—Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing of video streams, manipulating MPEG-4 scene graphs
    • H04N21/2347—Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing of video streams, manipulating MPEG-4 scene graphs involving video stream encryption
    • H—ELECTRICITY
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    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/20—Servers specifically adapted for the distribution of content, e.g. VOD servers; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/23—Processing of content or additional data; Elementary server operations; Server middleware
    • H04N21/24—Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. monitoring of server load, available bandwidth, upstream requests
    • H04N21/2407—Monitoring of transmitted content, e.g. distribution time, number of downloads
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    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/20—Servers specifically adapted for the distribution of content, e.g. VOD servers; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/25—Management operations performed by the server for facilitating the content distribution or administrating data related to end-users or client devices, e.g. end-user or client device authentication, learning user preferences for recommending movies
    • H04N21/266—Channel or content management, e.g. generation and management of keys and entitlement messages in a conditional access system, merging a VOD unicast channel into a multicast channel
    • H04N21/26613—Channel or content management, e.g. generation and management of keys and entitlement messages in a conditional access system, merging a VOD unicast channel into a multicast channel for generating or managing keys in general
    • H—ELECTRICITY
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    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/40—Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/43—Processing of content or additional data, e.g. demultiplexing additional data from a digital video stream; Elementary client operations, e.g. monitoring of home network or synchronising decoder's clock; Client middleware
    • H04N21/44—Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing a video clip retrieved from local storage with an incoming video stream, rendering scenes according to MPEG-4 scene graphs
    • H04N21/4405—Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing a video clip retrieved from local storage with an incoming video stream, rendering scenes according to MPEG-4 scene graphs involving video stream decryption
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04H—BROADCAST COMMUNICATION
    • H04H2201/00—Aspects of broadcast communication
    • H04H2201/50—Aspects of broadcast communication characterised by the use of watermarks
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    • H04H2201/00—Aspects of broadcast communication
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N21/00—Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD]
    • H04N21/20—Servers specifically adapted for the distribution of content, e.g. VOD servers; Operations thereof
    • H04N21/23—Processing of content or additional data; Elementary server operations; Server middleware
    • H04N21/234—Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing of video streams, manipulating MPEG-4 scene graphs
    • H04N21/2343—Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing of video streams, manipulating MPEG-4 scene graphs involving reformatting operations of video signals for distribution or compliance with end-user requests or end-user device requirements
    • H04N21/234309—Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing of video streams, manipulating MPEG-4 scene graphs involving reformatting operations of video signals for distribution or compliance with end-user requests or end-user device requirements by transcoding between formats or standards, e.g. from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 or from Quicktime to Realvideo
EP12802805.7A 2011-06-21 2012-06-21 Methods and apparatus to measure exposure to streaming media Withdrawn EP2756684A4 (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (6)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
US201161499520P 2011-06-21 2011-06-21
US201161568631P 2011-12-08 2011-12-08
US13/341,646 US9210208B2 (en) 2011-06-21 2011-12-30 Monitoring streaming media content
US13/341,661 US9515904B2 (en) 2011-06-21 2011-12-30 Monitoring streaming media content
US13/455,961 US20130290508A1 (en) 2012-04-25 2012-04-25 Methods and apparatus to measure exposure to streaming media
PCT/US2012/043546 WO2012177874A2 (en) 2011-06-21 2012-06-21 Methods and apparatus to measure exposure to streaming media

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EP2756684A4 true EP2756684A4 (en) 2015-06-24

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AU (1) AU2012272876B2 (en)
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WO (1) WO2012177874A2 (en)

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