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Programming data gathering systemsRelated Patent Categories: Telecommunications, Radiotelephone SystemProgramming data gathering systems description/claimsThe Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20060003732, Programming data gathering systems. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
RELATED APPLICATION [0001] This application claims the benefit of U.S. provisional patent application Ser. No. 60/554,560, filed Mar. 19, 2004, assigned to the assignee of the present invention and hereby incorporated herein by reference in its entirety. FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0002] The present invention concerns methods and systems for programming data gathering systems. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0003] A wide variety of methods are available to track automatically consumer exposure to certain types of media, including television and radio. Television and radio employ receivable transmissions, whether visual, audible or otherwise electronically receivable, and thus are well-suited for measurement via electronic devices. [0004] Other forms of consumer activity, however, do not employ such types of transmissions and thus are not readily measurable. In particular, consumer publication reading activity, including reading of magazines, newspapers, books, etc., is technologically inert. Currently, libraries, book stores and other commercial establishments that sell books and other types of publications employ radio frequency identification devices (RFIDs) as a way of preventing theft of such items. However, the actual purchase, renting or borrowing of a publication itself is insufficient information to identify or otherwise ascertain whether the publication has been read, or has been read multiple times, or to identify other useful information regarding the consumer's usage of that publication. [0005] In view of the foregoing, publication usage tracking has heretofore principally entailed the use of consumer surveys and diaries, where consumers manually record or otherwise identify (e.g., during telephone interviews) their readership activity. Unfortunately, surveys and diaries are labor-intensive, intrusive to everyday life, and prone to either intentional and/or inadvertent misreporting. [0006] It is desired, therefore, to seek ways of gathering data relating to publication usage that are easy to implement, error-resistant and minimally invasive to consumers. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION [0007] For this application the following terms and definitions shall apply: [0008] The term "publication" as used herein means one or more of a plurality of physical objects disseminated publicly or privately to convey data in printed form to persons, and includes but is not limited to, magazines, newspapers, mailings, catalogs, books, pamphlets, programs, advertising and promotional materials. [0009] 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 the same predetermined information in a different physical form or forms. [0010] The terms "media data" and "media" as used herein mean data, other than publications, which is widely accessible, whether over-the-air, or via cable, satellite, network, internetwork (including the Internet), 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, text, images, animations, databases, datasets, broadcasts, displays, signs, signals, web pages and streaming media 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" and "second" are used to distinguish one element, set, data, object, step, process, activity or thing from another, and are not used to designate relative position or arrangement in time, unless otherwise stated explicitly. [0013] The terms "deformation", "deformed" and "deform" as used herein mean a change of shape or form or the act of changing a shape or form, of a publication or portion thereof, whether permanent or temporary, and whether destructive or non-destructive. [0014] The terms "coupled", "coupled to", and "coupled with" as used herein each mean a relationship between or among two or more devices, apparatus, files, 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, programs, media, components, networks, systems, subsystems, or means, (b) a communications relationship, whether direct or through one or more other devices, apparatus, files, 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, programs, media, components, networks, systems, subsystems, or means depends, in whole or in part, on the operation of any one or more others thereof. [0015] The terms "communicate," "communicating" and "communication" as used herein include both conveying data from a source to a destination, and delivering data to a communications medium, system, device or link to be conveyed to a destination. [0016] The term "processor" as used herein means processing devices, apparatus, programs, circuits, components, systems and subsystems, whether implemented in hardware, software or both. [0017] The terms "storage," "data storage" and "memory" as used herein mean data storage devices, apparatus, programs, circuits, systems, subsystems and storage media serving to retain data, whether on a temporary or permanent basis, and to provide such retained data. [0018] 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 file, a document, a list or in any other form. [0019] The term "location" as used herein refers to a position relative to any frame of reference such as a facility, residence, train, aircraft, automobile, or other structure, conveyance, place or thing, whether fixed or in motion, or relative to a coordinate system such as latitude and longitude. [0020] The term "disposition data" as used herein refers to data representing location, change in location, motion, speed, velocity, movement and/or acceleration. Continue reading about Programming data gathering systems... 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