Did You Know...
...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8135331 | System for providing interactive user interactive user interest survey to user of mobile devices A system for mobile devices that facilitates the creation and dissemination of user interest surveys to a plurality of mobile devices and PCs/laptops that comprise a user interest survey client component. A computer or PC comprising an user interest survey generator... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8041290 | Tracking locally broadcast electronic works A method, system, and program for tracking locally broadcast electronic works are provided. According to one aspect of the invention, a sending player locally broadcasts an electronic work. In particular, the local broadcast may be a wireless broadcast creating an a... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8023882 | Portable audience measurement architectures and methods for portable audience measurement 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 c... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7986913 | Method and apparatus for identificaton of broadcast source A user (102) hears an audio program being broadcast and can record a sample of the audio. The sample is then conveyed to an analyzing means (106) to determine to which broadcast station the user is listening. The analyzing means monitors many broadcast... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7809324 | Method and apparatus for determining the efficiency of radio publicity and/or broadcasted programs Method and apparatus for determining the efficiency of publicity and/or broadcasted programs, according to which, when a TV converter or FM radio is operated, the frequency of the broadcast channel received at the moment is determined either directly from the TV con... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7778591 | Radio with backchannel feedback An interactive radio system includes a broadcast radio station and an interactive radio device wherein the interactive radio device sends feedback data to the broadcaster. In various embodiments, the broadcast radio station can broadcast an enhanced radio signal tha... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7742737 | Methods and apparatus for identifying a digital audio signal Method and apparatus for identifying broadcast digital audio signals include structure and/or function whereby the digital audio signal is provided to processing structure which is configured to (i) identify a program-identifying code in the received digital audio s... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7715780 | Audience response systems, methods and apparatus A wireless audience response system can have a host unit, presenter device, and a plurality of audience response units with keypads, with the host unit being communicatively coupled to a computer. In some embodiments, the audience response units can be used to execu... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7653341 | Logging of radio listening and interactivity A system for collecting, evaluating and using usage activity includes one or more media devices and a network with a ratings service. A media device includes a logging service for logging usage activity when media content is accessed and played, shared, deleted and/... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7650109 | Analyzing system, analyzing method using the same, and system for collecting survey results for use in analysis A surveyor carries a terminal device 200 and travels to a survey point preliminarily instructed. The surveyor obtains survey position information by using a GPS unit in the terminal device 200 at the survey point. The surveyor also photographs an objec... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7623823 | Detecting and measuring exposure to media content items User exposure to media items is detected and measured. A mobile client device carried by a user digitally samples the audio environment of the user on a regular basis. These samples are transformed into a stream of data signatures and compared with reference media i... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7486925 | Method and apparatus for monitoring audio listening A method and apparatus receive, detect, collect and analyze program-identifying (“PI”) information contained in a plurality of broadcast or recorded electronic audio signals. Each audio signal represents the sounds (audio portion) in a plurality of sequential pr... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7460827 | Radio frequency proximity detection and identification system and method Disclosed herein is a critical band encoding technology (CBET) system having at least one portable people meter (PPM) and a home base station and/or household hub, the CBET system containing a radio frequency (RF) proximity detection and identification system, compr... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7421628 | Methods and apparatus to extract codes from a plurality of channels Methods and apparatus to extract audio codes are disclosed. An example method includes receiving signals on a plurality of channels and ranking the signals based on at least one characteristic of the signals. A first channel from the plurality of channels is selecte... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7379705 | Mobile station randomizing of message transmission timing to mitigate mass message event To mitigate the impact of a mass communication event, such as a mass voting event, on the resources of the mobile wireless communication network, each user's mobile station is adapted to appropriately adjust its timing of the transmission during the mass communicati... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7366461 | Method and apparatus for improving the quality of a recorded broadcast audio program Recordings of broadcast audio content often contain errors (e.g., noise, signal loss, interference, talkover). A method and apparatus are provided for improving the quality of such a recording. Multiple recordings of a broadcast audio program are identified, and are... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7359687 | System and method for obtaining comprehensive vehicle radio listener statistics A system, apparatus, method and computer program product to obtain comprehensive vehicle radio listener statistics based on parameters such as radio status (e.g., on/off status and CD/Tape/AM/FM setting), radio volume, station preset information, current frequency s... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359710 | Satellite TV derivative programming via mobile phone A wireless telephony network provides satellite TV derivative program information and content, in addition to conventional wireless telephony services, to eligible mobile stations of the wireless telephony network. The wireless telephony network receives satellite T... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356556 | System and method for selecting internet media channels A system and method provide for selecting Internet media channels. Generally speaking, the selection involves choosing target channels based on user preferences. In one example embodiment, the system and method receive a user preference relating to a data item avail... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353258 | Interactive messaging system The interactive messaging system of the present invention provides for an interactive communication process between users, both senders and recipients. The sender composes a message by filling in a template stored in data services. Once completed, the sender pushes ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352733 | Implementing location awareness in WLAN devices An ambient country identifier (ACI) signal can be used to automatically provide location awareness for a WLAN device. If an ACI signal is detected, then the WLAN device can configure itself to comply with channel and power settings for the country having the detecte... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349552 | Connected audio and other media objects Media objects are transformed into active, connected objects via identifiers embedded into them or their containers. In the context of a user's playback experience, a decoding process extracts the identifier from a media object and possibly additional context inform... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7340258 | Mobile phone combined with satellite radio capability A wireless telephony network provides satellite radio program information and content, in addition to conventional wireless telephony services, to eligible mobile stations of the wireless telephony network. The wireless telephony network receives satellite radio pro... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7328023 | Process and system for deployment of radio coverage of a cellular radiotelephony network A modeling process for the deployment of the radio coverage of a cellular radiotelephony network, using a computer system that memorizes data representing reference coverage maps of the network, data representing geographic maps broken down into area delimited by a ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7328236 | Method and system for accessing information and/or data available on a wide area computer network There is disclosed a method and a system for accessing information and/or data available on a wide area computer network (100), such as the Internet. A first modulated acoustic signal (A) is transmitted to a group of potential users each provided with a porta... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7321920 | Interactive messaging system The interactive messaging system of the present invention provides for an interactive communication process between users, both senders and recipients. The sender composes a message by filling in a template stored in data services. Once completed, the sender pushes ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321941 | Network routing utilizing a product code A method for utilizing a product code having product information contained therein for interfacing over a network. The product information is extracted from the product code, which product code is disposed on or in close association with an associated product. In re... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7313359 | Dynamic data delivery apparatus and method for same A system for providing enhanced radio content to a remote user is disclosed. The system includes at least one input that receives non-radio input; and, at least one output interconnected to the at least one input via a hub, wherein the at least one output receives t... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313360 | Dynamic data delivery apparatus and method for same A system for providing enhanced radio content to a remote user is disclosed. The system includes at least one input that receives non-radio input; and, at least one output interconnected to the at least one input via a hub, wherein the at least one output receives t... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310350 | Mobile surveys and polling A method and system are provided for allowing mobile device users to participate in an online survey community by entering opinions and reading opinions of other through their mobile devices. The mobile devices need not support the same protocol as the server that m... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7293060 | Electronic disc jockey service An electronic disc jockey service in which the services of a disc jockey are effectively transformed into an Internet-based (or other network-based) service that is accessible from anywhere the Internet is accessible. Disc jockey services may in theory be provided t... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289062 | Method and device for accurately pointing a satellite earth station antenna A device for measuring the received signal strength at an Earth station antenna has the capability to provide an accurate pointing indication when the frequency bands and other key characteristics of the satellite signals are not uniform over the coverage area. The ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289762 | Method for performing an inquiry in a telecommunications network The invention concerns a method for performing an inquiry in a telecommunications network, in which the inquiry is carried out in the following steps: —creating a database of persons, —forming and recording the questions, —selecting from the database a set sat... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7277671 | Wireless response system and method A wireless response system includes a base unit and a plurality of handheld response units communicating with the base unit over a wireless communication link. The base unit sends polling commands to the response units over the wireless communication. The response u... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7274316 | System and method for managing data from a flow analyzer A system and method for processing sample data employing hardware, such as a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), to process the sample data in small pipelined steps. The processing includes a circular buffer where the read and write of data is synchronous, prevent... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7275090 | Log accumulation device with user accuracy setting means and pseudo-information generating means An information processing apparatus, such as might be associated with an in-home audio or video control device or a home appliance operated by a user, is provided with input allowing the user to set accuracy of a log of device operation history and/or to set a ratio... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7268901 | Intelligent printing by a kiosk A publication is distributed by an automated publication delivery system. Activity around a physical location of the automated publication delivery system is monitored. In response to detection of an increased activity level around the physical location of the autom... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7266342 | Satellite to vehicle data communication method A method is provided of transferring satellite digital audio channel information to a radio display module. The method includes: broadcasting radio display type information on a in-vehicle communication network; storing a value in the radio display module to indicat... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7257611 | Distributed nonstop architecture for an event processing system Methods and architectures for implementing a fault tolerant real time event processing system are provided. The system includes at least one satellite and at least one primary data center. The system remains operational when the primary data center is unavailable to... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7221937 | Event reminder method A mobile device that uses events as triggers for reminders in addition to date and time. Such events may be location-based, or based on other events or tasks scheduled by the user and other events or tasks scheduled by another user. ... | 05/22/2007 |
