Patent ID: 9503536
Filing Date: 2016-11-22
CPC Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for monitoring a media device, the method comprising: collecting demographic information from a user with a registrar of a media device; transmitting the demographic information to a central facility from the registrar; and storing, with a processor executing the registrar, a panelist identifier identifying the user in a shared memory of the media device, the panelist identifier accessible to a first monitoring-enabled application and a second monitoring-enabled application, the first monitoring-enabled application and the second monitoring-enabled application separate from the registrar, the panelist identifier to be retrieved by the first monitoring-enabled application, the first monitoring-enabled application to present media, the first monitoring-enabled application to collect monitoring information if the panelist identifier is in the shared memory and to disable collection of the media monitoring information if the panelist identifier is not in the shared memory.