US Patent Issued to The Nielsen Company (US) on Oct. 27 for "Use of on-device meter to monitor streaming-media exposure" (Texas, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,083, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Use of on-device meter to monitor streaming-media exposure" was invented by Achilleas Papakostas (Dallas) and John Steven Stavropoulos (Edison, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system to facilitate media measurement when a device engages in streaming media communication that bypasses a possible local-area-network based streaming meter. An example method includes the device engaging in packet-data communications through a cellular-wireless connection between the device and a cellular access node. Further, the method includes he device routing...