Prompting of audience member identification
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1. A method of prompting an audience member to enter an audience member identification into an audience meter comprising:
- determining a probability that the audience member is in an audience of a receiver;
prompting the audience member to enter the audience member identification if the probability that the audience member is in the audience of the receiver is less than a threshold; and
, suppressing prompting of the audience member if the probability that the audience member is in the audience of the receiver is greater than the threshold.
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Abstract
An audience measurement system determines the likelihood that an audience member is in the audience of a receiver during a particular day part. If the audience member is not likely to be in the audience of the receiver during that day part, the audience member is prompted to enter an audience member identification. On the other hand, if the audience member is likely to be in the audience of the receiver during that day part, prompting of the audience member to enter an audience member identification is suppressed.
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1. A method of prompting an audience member to enter an audience member identification into an audience meter comprising:
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determining a probability that the audience member is in an audience of a receiver;
prompting the audience member to enter the audience member identification if the probability that the audience member is in the audience of the receiver is less than a threshold; and
,suppressing prompting of the audience member if the probability that the audience member is in the audience of the receiver is greater than the threshold. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43)
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16. A method of prompting an audience member to enter an audience member identification into an audience meter comprising:
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determining a variable as a function of a number of times that the audience member was in an audience of a receiver and a number of times that the receiver was turned on;
prompting the audience member to enter the audience member identification if the variable is not greater than a threshold; and
,suppressing prompting of the audience member if the variable is greater than the threshold.
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44. A method of prompting an audience member to enter an audience member identification into an audience meter comprising:
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prompting the audience member to enter the audience member identification at intermittent prompting occasions;
at each prompting occasion, determining a likelihood based upon past audience composition and tuning habits that the audience member is in an audience of a receiver; and
,suppressing prompting of the audience member if the determination made at a corresponding prompting occasion indicates that it is likely that the audience member is in the audience of the receiver. - View Dependent Claims (45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53)
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54. A method of prompting an audience member to enter an audience member identification into an audience meter comprising:
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applying a heuristic to determine whether the audience member is in an audience of a receiver;
counting the audience members in the audience of the receiver to produce a count;
prompting the audience member to enter the audience member identification if the heuristic indicates that the audience member is not in the audience of the receiver and if the count is not equal a number of logged in audience members; and
,suppressing prompting of the audience member if the heuristic indicates that the audience member is in the audience of the receiver and if the count is equal the number of logged in audience members. - View Dependent Claims (55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76)
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68. A method of prompting an audience member to enter an audience member identification into an audience meter comprising:
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determining a probability that the audience member is in an audience of a receiver based upon both tuning history and tuning style;
prompting the audience member to enter the audience member identification if the probability that the audience member is in the audience of the receiver is less than a threshold; and
,suppressing prompting of the audience member if the probability that the audience member is in the audience of the receiver is greater than the threshold.
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77. A method of prompting an audience member to enter an audience member identification into an audience meter comprising:
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determining a variable as a function of a number of times that the audience member was in an audience of a receiver and a number of times that the receiver was turned on;
determining a probability that the audience member is in an audience of a receiver based upon tuning style;
prompting the audience member to enter the audience member identification if the variable is not greater than a first threshold and if the probability is not greater than a second threshold; and
,suppressing prompting of the audience member if the variable is greater than the threshold and if the probability is greater than a second threshold. - View Dependent Claims (78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90)
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