Patent ID: 8601163

Claim:
A method to meter media presented by a media consumption device, the method comprising: detecting, at a metering device, first metadata accompanying the media presented by the media consumption device, the first metadata being detected by the metering device in a media signal output from the media consumption device; receiving, at the metering device, second metadata from a transcoder, the second metadata associated with the media presented by the media consumption device, the second metadata being received by the metering device in a second signal different from the media signal output from the media consumption device, the second metadata comprising third metadata that has been transcoded to form the second metadata, wherein the third metadata is not detectable by the metering device, and the second metadata comprises the third metadata after being transcoded into a format capable of being received and processed by the metering device; and processing the first metadata and the second metadata at the metering device to meter the media presented by the media consumption device.