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  Monitoring usage of a portable user applianceUSPTO Application #: 20080109295Title: Monitoring usage of a portable user appliance Abstract: Methods and systems for gathering data concerning usage of a portable user appliance are disclosed. Content created in the use of the portable user appliance is monitored to produce content related data. The content related data is communicated to a usage data processing facility for producing reports of interest to advertisers, media organizations, marketers and the like. (end of abstract) Agent: Patent Docket Clerk Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.c. - New York, NY, US Inventors: Roberta M. McConochie, Alan R. Neuhauser, Jack C. Crystal USPTO Applicaton #: 20080109295 - Class: 705 10 (USPTO) The Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20080109295. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
[0001]Methods and systems for monitoring use of a portable user appliance (PUA) are disclosed. BACKGROUND [0002]Media organizations, marketers, advertisers, and others are interested in learning consumers' opinions, preferences, beliefs and feelings about media, advertisements and products. Various ways of soliciting consumers' views on these matters have been employed, but they are relatively expensive to carry out and it is questionable whether the views so obtained are biased since many consumers can be reluctant to express their real views when they respond to an explicit request for them. Accordingly, a relatively inexpensive way of obtaining consumers' views on such matters which also tends to provide such views candidly in an unbiased manner, would be advantageous. DISCLOSURE [0003]For this application, the following terms and definitions shall apply: [0004]The term "data" as used herein means any indicia, signals, marks, symbols, domains, symbol sets, representations, and any other physical form or forms representing information, whether permanent or temporary, whether visible, audible, acoustic, electric, magnetic, electromagnetic or otherwise manifested. The term "data" as used to represent predetermined information in one physical form shall be deemed to encompass any and all representations of corresponding information in a different physical form or forms. [0005]The terms "media data" and "media" as used herein mean data which is widely accessible, whether over-the-air, or via cable, satellite, network, internetwork (including the Internet), print, displayed, distributed on storage media, or by any other means or technique that is humanly perceptible, without regard to the form or content of such data, and including but not limited to audio, video, audio/video, text, images, animations, databases, broadcasts, displays (including but not limited to video displays, posters and billboards), signs, signals, web pages, print media and streaming media data. [0006]The term "research data" as used herein means data comprising (1) data concerning usage of media, (2) data concerning exposure to media, and/or (3) market research data. [0007]The term "presentation data" as used herein shall mean media data, content other than media data or a message to be presented to a user. [0008]The term "database" as used herein means an organized body of related data, regardless of the manner in which the data or the organized body thereof is represented. For example, the organized body of related data may be in the form of a table, a map, a grid, a packet, a datagram, a frame, a file, an e-mail, a message, a document, a list or in any other form. [0009]The term "correlate" as used herein means a process of ascertaining a relationship between or among data, including but not limited to an identity relationship, a correspondence or other relationship of such data to further data, inclusion in a dataset, exclusion from a dataset, a predefined mathematical relationship between or among the data and/or to further data, and the existence of a common aspect between or among the data. [0010]The terms "purchase" and "purchasing" as used herein mean a process of obtaining title, a license, possession or other right in or to goods or services in exchange for consideration, whether payment of money, barter or other legally sufficient consideration, or as promotional samples. As used herein, the term "goods" and "services" include, but are not limited to, data and rights in or to data. [0011]The term "network" as used herein includes both networks and internetworks of all kinds, including the Internet, and is not limited to any particular network or inter-network. [0012]The terms "first," "second," "primary," and "secondary" are used herein to distinguish one element, set, data, object, step, process, function, activity or thing from another, and are not used to designate relative position, arrangement in time or relative importance, unless otherwise stated explicitly. [0013]The terms "coupled", "coupled to", and "coupled with" as used herein each mean a relationship between or among two or more devices, apparatus, files, circuits, elements, functions, operations, processes, programs, media, components, networks, systems, subsystems, and/or means, constituting any one or more of (a) a connection, whether direct or through one or more other devices, apparatus, files, circuits, elements, functions, operations, processes, programs, media, components, networks, systems, subsystems, or means, (b) a communications relationship, whether direct or through one or more other devices, apparatus, files, circuits, elements, functions, operations, processes, programs, media, components, networks, systems, subsystems, or means, and/or (c) a functional relationship in which the operation of any one or more devices, apparatus, files, circuits, elements, functions, operations, processes, programs, media, components, networks, systems, subsystems, or means depends, in whole or in part, on the operation of any one or more others thereof. [0014]The terms "communicate" and "communicating" as used herein include both conveying data from a source to a destination, and delivering data to a communications medium, system, channel, network, device, wire, cable, fiber, circuit, and/or link to be conveyed to a destination. The term "communications" as used herein includes one or more of a communications medium, system, channel, network, device, wire, cable, fiber, circuit and link. [0015]The term "message" as used herein includes data to be communicated, in communication or which has been communicated. [0016]The term "processor" as used herein means processing devices, apparatus, programs, circuits, components, systems and subsystems, whether implemented in hardware, software or both, and whether or not programmable. The term "processor" as used herein includes, but is not limited to one or more computers, hardwired circuits, signal modifying devices and systems, devices and machines for controlling systems, central processing units, programmable devices and systems, field programmable gate arrays, application specific integrated circuits, systems on a chip, systems comprised of discrete elements and/or circuits, state machines, virtual machines, data processors, processing facilities and combinations of any of the foregoing. [0017]The terms "storage" and "data storage" as used herein mean data storage devices, apparatus, programs, circuits, components, systems, subsystems and storage media serving to retain data, whether on a temporary or permanent basis, and to provide such retained data. [0018]The terms "panelist," "panel member" and "participant" are interchangeably used herein to refer to a person who is, knowingly or unknowingly, participating in a study to gather information, whether by electronic, survey or other means, about that person's activity. [0019]The term "household" as used herein is to be broadly construed to include family members, a family living at the same residence, a group of persons related or unrelated to one another living at the same residence, and a group of persons (of which the total number of unrelated persons does not exceed a predetermined number) living within a common facility, such as a fraternity house, an apartment or other similar structure or arrangement. [0020]The term "activity" as used herein includes, but is not limited to, purchasing conduct, shopping habits, viewing habits, computer, Internet usage, exposure to media, personal attitudes, awareness, opinions and beliefs, as well as other forms of activity discussed herein. [0021]The term "portable user appliance" (also referred to herein, for convenience, by the abbreviation "PUA") as used herein means an electrical or non-electrical device capable of being carried by or on the person of a user or capable of being disposed on or in, or held by, a physical object (e.g., attache, purse) capable of being carried by or on the user, and having at least one function of primary benefit to such user, including without limitation, a cellular telephone, a personal digital assistant ("PDA"), a Blackberry.RTM. a device, a radio, a television, a game system (e.g., a Gameboy.RTM. device), a notebook computer, a laptop computer, a GPS device, a personal audio device (e.g., an MP3 player), a DVD player, a two-way radio, a personal communications device, a telematics device, a remote control device, a wireless headset, a wristwatch, a portable data storage device (e.g., Thumb.TM. drive), a camera, a recorder, a keyless entry device, a ring, a comb, a pen, a pencil, a notebook, a wallet, a tool, a flashlight, an implement, a pair of glasses, an article of clothing, a belt, a belt buckle, a fob, an article of jewelry, an ornamental article, a pair of shoes or other foot garment (e.g., sandals), a jacket, and a hat, as well as any devices combining any of the foregoing or their functions. [0022]The term "research device" as used herein shall mean (1) a portable user appliance configured or otherwise enabled to gather, store and/or communicate research data, or to cooperate with other devices to gather, store and/or communicate research data, and/or (2) a research data gathering, storing and/or communicating device. Continue reading... Full patent description for Monitoring usage of a portable user appliance Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims Click on the above for other options relating to this Monitoring usage of a portable user appliance patent application. Patent Applications in related categories: 20080172287 - Automated domain determination in business logic applications - Data ranges (domains) for statistical analysis of performance metrics are determined automatically based on user inputs for ending and starting periods. 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