Appeal No. 2005-1760
Application 09/316,649
20). The profile data and viewing habit data are collected at a
customer site by a set top terminal 412, and the profile data and
viewing habit data are transmitted via a two-way communications
path to a data collection memory 508 at head end 502 (Figure 5;
column 41, line 57 through column 42, line 11). The two-way
communications path is not the Internet. In Herz, the only use
of the Internet is to download data to the customer’s site.
Welsh discloses “[a] system for monitoring and recording
. . . television program viewing habits utilizing a plurality of
remote program monitor units in panelists households and
automatically periodically reporting such data to a central
computer via a conventional telephone network”2 (Abstract). Welsh
is silent concerning the use of the Internet to transmit the
collected data to a collection center.
In Williams, a user profile is created based in part on the
monitored viewing habits of the user (column 2, lines 11 through
21). The user profile includes a behavior log that identifies
the time period that a program was watched by the viewer (column
15, line 44 through column 16, line 10). The data collected by
system controller 104, 704 (e.g., a set top box) is transmitted
to a remote server/collection center via the Internet connection
2 This type of data collection and transmission is described in
appellants’ admitted prior art (specification, pages 1 and 2).
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