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US9398331B2 - Power management for audience measurement meters - Google Patents
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Power management methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture for audience measurement meters are disclosed. Example methods disclosed herein include obtaining presentation device state data representing an activation state of a media presentation device that is to present received media and is monitored by an audience measurement meter, the presentation device state data including time information. Such disclosed example methods also include determining whether to fault audience measurement data reported by the audience measurement meter based on the presentation device state data and power outage information determined from the audience measurement data.
This patent arises from a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/149,500 (now U.S. Pat. No. 8,924,994), which is entitled “POWER MANAGEMENT FOR AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT METERS” and which was filed on May 31, 2011. U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/149,500 is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.
The example media presentation devices 110A-C can each correspond to any type of audio, video and/or multimedia presentation device capable of presenting media content audibly and/or visually. For example, one or more of the media presentation devices 110A-C can correspond to a respective television and/or display device that supports the National Television Standards Committee (NTSC) standard, the Phase Alternating Line (PAL) standard, the Système Électronique pour Couleur avec Mémoire (SECAM) standard, a standard developed by the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC), such as high definition television (HDTV), a standard developed by the Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) Project, etc. As another example, one or more of the media presentation devices 110A-C can correspond to a multimedia computer system, a personal digital assistant, a cellular/mobile smartphone, a radio, etc.
S2 CPU is off (no power); RAM is refreshed; system is
running in a second low power mode that is lower than
S3 CPU is off (no power); RAM is in slow refresh state; power
supply is in a reduced power mode, yielding a third low power
mode lower than the first and second low power modes
While example manners of implementing the audience measurement meters 115A-C and 300, the state monitors 120A-C and 200, and the data processing facility 135 have been illustrated in FIGS. 2-5, one or more of the elements, processes and/or devices illustrated in FIGS. 2-5 may be combined, divided, re-arranged, omitted, eliminated and/or implemented in any other way. Further, one or more of the example audience measurement meters 115A-C and/or 300, the example state monitors 120A-C and/or 200, the example data processing facility 135, the example presentation device state monitor 205, the example meter power manager 230, the example state logger 235, the example RTC 240, the example meter state reporter 255, the example monitoring processors 305 and/or 405, the example power controllers 310 and/or 410, the example meter interrogator 415, the example data receiver 505, the example data processor 510 and/or the example meter fault determiner 515 of FIGS. 2-5 may be implemented by hardware, software, firmware and/or any combination of hardware, software and/or firmware. Thus, for example, any of the example audience measurement meters 115A-C and/or 300, the example state monitors 120A-C and/or 200, the example data processing facility 135, the example presentation device state monitor 205, the example meter power manager 230, the example state logger 235, the example RTC 240, the example meter state reporter 255, the example monitoring processors 305 and/or 405, the example power controllers 310 and/or 410, the example meter interrogator 415, the example data receiver 505, the example data processor 510 and/or the example meter fault determiner 515 could be implemented by one or more circuit(s), programmable processor(s), application specific integrated circuit(s) (ASIC(s)), programmable logic device(s) (PLD(s)) and/or field programmable logic device(s) (FPLD(s)), etc. When any of the appended apparatus claims are read to cover a purely software and/or firmware implementation, at least one of the example audience measurement meters 115A-C and/or 300, the example state monitors 120A-C and/or 200, the example data processing facility 135, the example presentation device state monitor 205, the example meter power manager 230, the example state logger 235, the example RTC 240, the example meter state reporter 255, the example monitoring processors 305 and/or 405, the example power controllers 310 and/or 410, the example meter interrogator 415, the example data receiver 505, the example data processor 510 and/or the example meter fault determiner 515 are hereby expressly defined to include a tangible computer readable medium such as a memory, digital versatile disk (DVD), compact disk (CD), etc., storing such software and/or firmware. Further still, the example audience measurement meters 115A-C and/or 300, the example state monitors 120A-C and/or 200, the example data processing facility 135 of FIGS. 2-5 may include one or more elements, processes and/or devices in addition to, or instead of, those illustrated in FIG. 2-5, and/or may include more than one of any or all of the illustrated elements, processes and devices.
The system 1200 of the instant example includes a processor 1212 such as a general purpose programmable processor. The processor 1212 includes a local memory 1214, and executes coded instructions 1216 present in the local memory 1214 and/or in another memory device. The processor 1212 may execute, among other things, the machine readable instructions represented in FIGS. 6-11. The processor 1212 may be any type of processing unit, such as one or more Intel® microprocessors from the Atom™ family, the Pentium® family, the Itanium® family and/or the XScale® family, one or more microcontrollers from the ARM® and/or PICO families of microcontrollers, etc. Of course, other processors from other families are also appropriate.
obtaining, by executing an instruction with a processor, presentation device state data representing an activation state history of a media presentation device, the presentation device state data including time information;
obtaining, by executing an instruction with the processor, audience measurement data reported by an audience measurement meter monitoring presentation of media by the media presentation device; and
in response to the audience measurement data indicating the audience measurement meter experienced an outage, determining, by executing an instruction with the processor, whether the audience measurement data is to be faulted based on a comparison of the activation state history of the media presentation device and outage information for the audience measurement meter determined from the audience measurement data.
2. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein the determining of whether the audience measurement data is to be faulted includes:
determining that the audience measurement data is to be faulted when a first time interval over which the audience measurement data indicates the outage occurred overlaps a second time interval over which the presentation device state data indicates the media presentation device was active; and
determining that the audience measurement data is not to be faulted when the first time interval does not overlap the second interval.
3. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein the determining of whether the audience measurement data is to be faulted includes:
determining that the audience measurement data is to be faulted when a time interval over which the audience measurement data indicates the outage occurred overlaps a time interval over which the presentation device state data indicates the media presentation device was active; and
determining that the audience measurement data is not to be faulted when no time interval over which the audience measurement data indicates the outage occurred overlaps another time interval over which the presentation device state data indicates the media presentation device was active.
4. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein the presentation device state data is determined by a device separate from the audience measurement meter that reported the audience measurement data.
5. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein the outage information indicates an interval of time over which the audience measurement meter experienced a power outage.
6. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein the audience measurement meter is a first audience measurement meter, and the outage information indicates an interval of time over which the first audience measurement meter experienced a communication outage with a second audience measurement meter.
7. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer readable instructions which, when executed, cause a processor to at least:
obtain presentation device state data representing an activation state history of a media presentation device, the presentation device state data including time information;
obtain audience measurement data reported by an audience measurement meter that is to monitor presentation of media by the media presentation device; and
in response to the audience measurement data indicating the audience measurement meter experienced an outage, determine whether the audience measurement data is to be faulted based on a comparison of the activation state history of the media presentation device and outage information for the audience measurement meter determined from the audience measurement data.
8. The non-transitory computer readable medium as defined in claim 7, wherein to determine whether the audience measurement data is to be faulted, the instructions, when executed, further cause the processor to:
determine that the audience measurement data is to be faulted when a first time interval over which the audience measurement data indicates the outage occurred overlaps a second time interval over which the presentation device state data indicates the media presentation device was active; and
determine that the audience measurement data is not to be faulted when the first time interval does not overlap the second interval.
9. The non-transitory computer readable medium as defined in claim 7, wherein to determine whether the audience measurement data is to be faulted, the instructions, when executed, further cause the processor to:
determine that the audience measurement data is to be faulted when a time interval over which the audience measurement data indicates the outage occurred overlaps a time interval over which the presentation device state data indicates the media presentation device was active; and
determine that the audience measurement data is not to be faulted when no time interval over which the audience measurement data indicates the outage occurred overlaps another time interval over which the presentation device state data indicates the media presentation device was active.
10. The non-transitory computer readable medium as defined in claim 7, wherein the presentation device state data is determined by a device separate from the audience measurement meter that reported the audience measurement data.
11. The non-transitory computer readable medium as defined in claim 7, wherein the outage information indicates an interval of time over which the audience measurement meter experienced a power outage.
12. The tangible computer readable medium as defined in claim 7, wherein the audience measurement meter is a first audience measurement meter, and the outage information indicates an interval of time over which the first audience measurement meter experienced a communication outage with a second audience measurement meter.
a data receiver to:
obtain presentation device state data representing an activation state history of a media presentation device, the presentation device state data including time information; and
a processor to determine whether the audience measurement data is to be faulted in response to the audience measurement data indicating the audience measurement meter experienced an outage, the processor to determine whether the audience measurement data is to be faulted based on a comparison of the activation state history of the media presentation device and outage information for the audience measurement meter determined from the audience measurement data.
14. The apparatus as defined in claim 13, wherein to determine whether the audience measurement data is to be faulted, the processor is to:
15. The apparatus as defined in claim 13, wherein to determine whether the audience measurement data is to be faulted, the processor is to:
16. The apparatus as defined in claim 13, wherein the presentation device state data is determined by a device separate from the audience measurement meter that reported the audience measurement data.
17. The apparatus as defined in claim 13, wherein the outage information indicates an interval of time over which the audience measurement meter experienced a power outage.
18. The apparatus as defined in claim 13, wherein the audience measurement meter is a first audience measurement meter, and the outage information indicates an interval of time over which the first audience measurement meter experienced a communication outage with a second audience measurement meter.
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