Patent ID: 9565473
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: H04H,H04N

Claim:
1. A method to share data between a service provider and a media monitoring system, the method comprising: accessing a data set provided by the service provider to the media monitoring system, the data set including service usage data and first encrypted identification data collected by the service provider for subscribers of the service provider, the first encrypted identification data being encrypted to hide identities of the subscribers from the media monitoring system; encrypting, with a processor, a combination of first and second personal identification data retrieved based on device identification data associated with a monitored device to determine second encrypted identification data; comparing, with the processor, a value of the second encrypted identification data with values of the first encrypted identification data in the data set to identify an entry of the data set that is associated with the second encrypted identification data; and adding, with the processor, a respective portion of the service usage data associated with the identified entry of the data set to a database of the media monitoring system.