Patents by Inventor David J. Croy

David J. Croy has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Portable audience measurement architectures and methods for portable audience measurement
    Patent number: 8467717
    Abstract: Portable audience measurement architectures and methods for portable audience measurement are disclosed. A disclosed system contains a plurality of portable measurement devices configured to collect audience measurement data from media devices, a plurality of data collection servers configured to collect audience measurement data from the plurality of portable measurement devices, and a central data processing server. A portable measurement device establishes a communication link with a data collection server in a peer-to-peer manner and transfers the collected audience measurement data to the data collection server. Because the portable measurement device is not dedicated to a particular local data collection server, the portable measurement device periodically or a periodically broadcasts a message attempting to find a data collection server with which to establish a communication link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: David J. Croy, Arun Ramaswamy, Paul Mears
  • PORTABLE AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT ARCHITECTURES AND METHODS FOR PORTABLE AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT
    Publication number: 20110239245
    Abstract: Portable audience measurement architectures and methods for portable audience measurement are disclosed. A disclosed system contains a plurality of portable measurement devices configured to collect audience measurement data from media devices, a plurality of data collection servers configured to collect audience measurement data from the plurality of portable measurement devices, and a central data processing server. A portable measurement device establishes a communication link with a data collection server in a peer-to-peer manner and transfers the collected audience measurement data to the data collection server. Because the portable measurement device is not dedicated to a particular local data collection server, the portable measurement device periodically or a periodically broadcasts a message attempting to find a data collection server with which to establish a communication link.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2011
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Inventors: David J. Croy, Arun Ramaswamy, Paul Mears
  • Portable audience measurement architectures and methods for portable audience measurement
    Patent number: 8023882
    Abstract: Portable audience measurement architectures and methods for portable audience measurement are disclosed. A disclosed system contains a plurality of portable measurement devices configured to collect audience measurement data from media devices, a plurality of data collection servers configured to collect audience measurement data from the plurality of portable measurement devices, and a central data processing server. A portable measurement device establishes a communication link with a data collection server in a peer-to-peer manner and transfers the collected audience measurement data to the data collection server. Because the portable measurement device is not dedicated to a particular local data collection server, the portable measurement device periodically or a periodically broadcasts a message attempting to find a data collection server with which to establish a communication link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC.
    Inventors: David J. Croy, Arun Ramaswamy, Paul Mears