Audience e.g. Internet TV audience, estimating device, involves generating unit to generate audience estimation and returning audience estimation data to server, where server collects audience estimation data from audience estimation report

摘要

The device has an electronic control circuit for controlling an asymmetric digital subscriber line modem (13) of a digital room. A generating unit is constituted of a detector probe (15) and an audience monitoring circuit (17). The generating unit generates audience estimation over an Internet data flow upstream of the control circuit and returns audience estimation data to a server (3). The server collects the audience estimation data from an audience estimation report. An independent claim is also included for a method for estimating audience.