Patents by Inventor Eugene L. Flanagan, III
Eugene L. Flanagan, III 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).
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Patent number: 10387618Abstract: Example methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture for monitoring use of a research device is disclosed. The disclosed example includes producing monitored data by monitoring at least one of the user's heart activity, the user's breathing activity, the user's borborygmus (gastrointestinal noise), the user's vascular pattern, the user's facial and/or ear patterns, the user's fingerprint and/or handprint, and the user's retinal and/or iris pattern, and determining the user's compliance with a predetermined criterion for use of the portable research device based on the monitored data.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2016Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLCInventors: Alan R. Neuhauser, Jack C. Crystal, Jack K. Zhang, Eugene L. Flanagan, III
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Patent number: 10200769Abstract: Systems and methods for gathering research data using multiple monitoring devices are provided. The systems and methods include obtaining, with a processor, first data recorded with a first monitoring device, the first data including first research data and omitting first omitted data, the first data recorded at a first time. Obtaining, with the processor, second data recorded with a second monitoring device, the second data including second research data that includes the first omitted data, the second data recorded at the first time. Obtaining, with the processor, proximity data from at least one of the first or second monitoring devices. When the proximity data indicates that the first and the second monitoring devices are proximate to each other at the first time, augmenting, with the processor, the first research data with the first omitted data from the second research data.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2015Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLCInventors: Joan G. FitzGerald, Carol J. Frost, Eugene L. Flanagan, III
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Publication number: 20170039337Abstract: Example methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture for monitoring use of a research device is disclosed. The disclosed example includes producing monitored data by monitoring at least one of the user's heart activity, the user's breathing activity, the user's borborygmus (gastrointestinal noise), the user's vascular pattern, the user's facial and/or ear patterns, the user's fingerprint and/or handprint, and the user's retinal and/or iris pattern, and determining the user's compliance with a predetermined criterion for use of the portable research device based on the monitored data.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2016Publication date: February 9, 2017Inventors: Alan R. Neuhauser, Jack C. Crystal, Jack K. Zhang, Eugene L. Flanagan, III
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Patent number: 9489640Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for monitoring use by a user of a portable research device based on one or more kinds of monitored data. Methods and systems are disclosed for monitoring use by a user of a portable research device in accordance with at least one predetermined use criterion using actively and/or passively gathered data.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2007Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLCInventors: Alan R. Neuhauser, Jack C. Crystal, Jack K. Zhang, Eugene L. Flanagan, III
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Patent number: 9317865Abstract: Methods and apparatus for research data gathering with a portable monitor and a stationary device are described. An example method includes gathering, via a stationary monitoring system, first data concerning exposure to media output by a media receiver, wherein gathering the first data comprises collecting a first code encoded in the media, gathering second data concerning exposure to the media output by the media receiver with a portable monitor carried on the person of a user, wherein the second data comprises a second code encoded in the media, gathering, via the portable monitor, location data encoded in the media by the stationary monitoring system, the location data providing information on a physical location of the portable monitor, and producing the audience measurement data concerning exposure to the media output by the receiver from the first data, the second data, and the location data.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2014Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLCInventors: Jack C. Crystal, James M. Jensen, William K. Krug, Wendell D. Lynch, Alan R. Neuhauser, Eugene L. Flanagan, III
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Publication number: 20150326954Abstract: Systems and methods for gathering research data using multiple monitoring devices are provided. The systems and methods include obtaining, with a processor, first data recorded with a first monitoring device, the first data including first research data and omitting first omitted data, the first data recorded at a first time. Obtaining, with the processor, second data recorded with a second monitoring device, the second data including second research data that includes the first omitted data, the second data recorded at the first time. Obtaining, with the processor, proximity data from at least one of the first or second monitoring devices. When the proximity data indicates that the first and the second monitoring devices are proximate to each other at the first time, augmenting, with the processor, the first research data with the first omitted data from the second research data.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2015Publication date: November 12, 2015Inventors: Joan G. FitzGerald, Carol J. Frost, Eugene L. Flanagan, III
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Patent number: 8849182Abstract: Methods and systems for measuring and gathering data relating to publication usage by participants in publication readership studies. Some methods and systems employ portable monitors carried by participants of the studies along with publications fitted with various devices, such as piezoelectric transducers, RFID tags and others devices and circuits.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2005Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLCInventors: Alan R. Neuhauser, James M. Jensen, Jack C. Crystal, Jack K. Zhang, Daniel W. Pugh, Douglas J. Visnius, Eugene L. Flanagan, III
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Publication number: 20140229232Abstract: Methods and apparatus for research data gathering with a portable monitor and a stationary device are described. An example method includes gathering, via a stationary monitoring system, first data concerning exposure to media output by a media receiver, wherein gathering the first data comprises collecting a first code encoded in the media, gathering second data concerning exposure to the media output by the media receiver with a portable monitor carried on the person of a user, wherein the second data comprises a second code encoded in the media, gathering, via the portable monitor, location data encoded in the media by the stationary monitoring system, the location data providing information on a physical location of the portable monitor, and producing the audience measurement data concerning exposure to the media output by the receiver from the first data, the second data, and the location data.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2014Publication date: August 14, 2014Applicant: THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLCInventors: Jack C. Crystal, James M. Jensen, William K. Krug, Wendell D. Lynch, Alan R. Neuhauser, Eugene L. Flanagan, III
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Patent number: 8799054Abstract: Methods and systems for initiating participation of a user of a portable device (PUA) in a research operation using a respective one of a plurality of PUA's providing communication services pursuant to a single agreement with a communication service provider. Data identifying the PUA user is associated with data identifying a group of persons receiving communication services pursuant to the single agreement, and demographic data of the PUA user is associated with the data identifying the PUA user.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2013Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLCInventors: Alan R. Neuhauser, Vijoy K. Gopalakrishnan, Jack C. Crystal, Jack K. Zhang, Eugene L. Flanagan, III
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Patent number: 8738763Abstract: Methods of gathering data concerning a location of an audience member proximate to a content presentation are provided. A stationary device is proximate to the content presentation. A portable monitor is carried by or with the person of an audience member. Location data is obtained by communicating data from the portable monitor to the stationary device, or from the stationary device to the portable monitor, or by comparing data gathered by both the stationary device and the portable monitor.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2007Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLCInventors: Jack C. Crystal, James M. Jensen, William K. Krug, Wendell D. Lynch, Alan R. Neuhauser, Eugene L. Flanagan, III
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Publication number: 20130346149Abstract: Methods and systems for initiating participation of a user of a portable device (PUA) in a research operation using a respective one of a plurality of PUA's providing communication services pursuant to a single agreement with a communication service provider. Data identifying the PUA user is associated with data identifying a group of persons receiving communication services pursuant to the single agreement, and demographic data of the PUA user is associated with the data identifying the PUA user.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2013Publication date: December 26, 2013Applicant: Arbitron Inc.Inventors: Alan R. Neuhauser, Vijoy K. Gopalakrishnan, Jack C. Crystal, Jack K. Zhang, Eugene L. Flanagan, III
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Patent number: 8444180Abstract: Methods and systems for measuring and gathering data relating to publication usage by participants in publication readership studies. Some methods and systems employ portable monitors carried by participants of the studies along with publications fitted with various devices, such as piezoelectric transducers, RFID tags and others devices and circuits.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2007Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: Arbitron Inc.Inventors: Alan R. Neuhauser, James M. Jensen, Jack C. Crystal, Jack K. Zhang, Daniel W. Pugh, Douglas J. Visnius, Eugene L. Flanagan, III
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Patent number: 8098152Abstract: Systems, methods and devices for gathering data concerning exposure of predetermined survey participants to media displays are provided. A portable monitor is arranged to receive certain types of terrestrial-based signals, and in some specific cases, satellite-based signals, and to use such signals to generate location data indicative of a location of the portable monitor. The location data and stored media display data is analyzed to evaluate the survey participant's exposure to one or more media displays.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2009Date of Patent: January 17, 2012Assignee: Arbitron Inc.Inventors: Jack K. Zhang, Jack C. Crystal, James M. Jensen, Eugene L. Flanagan, III
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Patent number: 7962315Abstract: Methods and systems for measuring and gathering data relating to publication usage by participants in publication readership studies. Some methods and systems employ portable monitors carried by participants of the studies along with publications fitted with various devices, such as piezoelectric transducers, RFID tags and others devices and circuits.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2005Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Arbitron Inc.Inventors: James M. Jensen, Jack C. Crystal, Alan R. Neuhauser, Jack K. Zhang, Daniel W. Pugh, Douglas J. Visnius, Eugene L. Flanagan, III
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Publication number: 20100033322Abstract: Systems, methods and devices for gathering data concerning exposure of predetermined survey participants to media displays are provided. A portable monitor is arranged to receive certain types of terrestrial-based signals, and in some specific cases, satellite-based signals, and to use such signals to generate location data indicative of a location of the portable monitor. The location data and stored media display data is analyzed to evaluate the survey participant's exposure to one or more media displays.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2009Publication date: February 11, 2010Inventors: JACK K. ZHANG, Jack C. Crystal, James M. Jensen, Eugene L. Flanagan, III
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Patent number: 7650793Abstract: Methods and systems for measuring and gathering data relating to publication usage by participants in publication readership studies. Some methods and systems employ portable monitors carried by participants of the studies along with publications fitted with various devices, such as piezoelectric transducers, RFID tags and others devices and circuits.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2005Date of Patent: January 26, 2010Assignee: Arbitron, Inc.Inventors: James M. Jensen, Jack C. Crystal, Alan R. Neuhauser, Jack K. Zhang, Daniel W. Pugh, Douglas J. Visnius, Eugene L. Flanagan, III
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Patent number: 7592908Abstract: Systems, methods and devices for gathering data concerning exposure of predetermined survey participants to media displays are provided. A portable monitor is arranged to receive certain types of terrestrial-based signals, and in some specific cases, satellite-based signals, and to use such signals to generate location data indicative of a location of the portable monitor. The location data and stored media display data is analyzed to evaluate the survey participant's exposure to one or more media displays.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2003Date of Patent: September 22, 2009Inventors: Jack K. Zhang, Jack C. Crystal, James M. Jensen, Eugene L. Flanagan, III
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Publication number: 20090037575Abstract: Methods of gathering data concerning a location of an audience member proximate to a content presentation are provided. A stationary device is proximate to the content presentation. A portable monitor is carried by or with the person of an audience member. Location data is obtained by communicating data from the portable monitor to the stationary device, or from the stationary device to the portable monitor, or by comparing data gathered by both the stationary device and the portable monitor.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2007Publication date: February 5, 2009Inventors: Jack C. Crystal, James M. Jensen, William K. Krug, Wendell D. Lynch, Alan R. Neuhauser, Eugene L. Flanagan, III
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Patent number: 7483975Abstract: The present invention concerns methods and systems for gathering data concerning usage of media data provided from a predetermined receiver to a user. First data concerning usage of the media data is gathered by means of a portable monitor carried on the person of the user. Second data concerning usage of media data by the predetermined receiver is gathered by a monitoring system separate from the portable monitor, the second data corresponding to at least a portion of the first data. Audience measurement data is produced based on the first and second data.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2004Date of Patent: January 27, 2009Inventors: Ronald S. Kolessar, James M. Jensen, Jack K. Zhang, Courtney Lewis Wood, Eugene L. Flanagan, III
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Patent number: 7463143Abstract: Methods and systems for tracking movements of participants in a market research study, for example, within a commercial establishment, are provided. The methods and systems employ portable monitors carried on the persons of the participants to gather location data.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2004Date of Patent: December 9, 2008Assignee: ArbioranInventors: David Patrick Forr, James M. Jensen, Eugene L. Flanagan, III