1. A method to identify a media presentation device, comprising:
intercepting, using a processor in communication with a local network, a data packet comprising a source identification, the data packet being addressed to a destination in a wide area network and originating from a media presentation device in the local network;
identifying a device type of the media presentation device based on the source identification; and
storing the device type and an indication of media exposure.
2. A method as defined in claim 1, wherein the source identification is a User-Agent field in the HTTP protocol.
3. A method as defined in claim 1, further comprising:
monitoring for an inbound data packet destined for the media presentation device, wherein the inbound data packet represents a response of the outbound data packet;
identifying media presentation information based on the inbound data packet; and
storing the media presentation information in association with the device type.
4. A method as defined in claim 3, further comprising:
storing a media request entry comprising a request origin and a request destination based on the outbound data packet; and
determining whether the inbound data packet corresponds to the media request entry; and
storing information representative of the inbound data packet when the inbound data packet corresponds to the media request entry.
5. A method as defined in claim 4, wherein determining whether the inbound data packet corresponds to the media request entry comprises determining whether at least one of an origin of the inbound data packet or a destination of the inbound data packet corresponds to the request origin or the request destination.
6. A method as defined in claim 1, wherein identifying the device type comprises comparing the source identification to a source identification database.
7. A method as defined in claim 1, further comprising identifying a first source identification as having a same device type as a second source identification different than the first source identification.
8. An apparatus, comprising:
a local network interface to intercept a message originating from a media presentation device in a local network and addressed to a destination in a wide area network, the message comprising a source identification and a request; and
a source identifier to identify a device type of the media presentation device based on the source identification without responding to the request and while permitting the message to continue to the wide area network.
9. An apparatus as defined in claim 8, further comprising a wide-area network interface to forward the message to the wide-area network, to receive an inbound message including media content requested in the request, wherein the local network interface is to forward the inbound message to the media presentation device.
10. An apparatus as defined in claim 8, further comprising a source identification database to store a plurality of reference source identifications, the source identifier to compare the source identification to at least one of the plurality of reference source identifications to identify the device type.
11. An apparatus as defined in claim 8, wherein the source identifier comprises:
a message parser to identify contents of the source identification; and
a device identifier to identify a device based on the contents.
12. An apparatus as defined in claim 11, wherein the message parser is to identify media content based on auxiliary data included in the message, and storing the media content identification in association with the device type.
13. An apparatus as defined in claim 8, wherein the source identifier further comprises a message comparer to compare the network-bound message to an inbound message to associate the inbound message with the media presentation device.
14. An apparatus as defined in claim 8, wherein the source identification comprises a User-Agent string representative of the device type.
15. An apparatus as defined in claim 8, wherein the source identifier comprises a usage tracker to generate media presentation information based on a plurality of media requests.
16. A tangible article of manufacture comprising computer readable instructions, which, when executed, cause a computer to at least:
intercept a data packet comprising a source identification, the data packet being addressed to a destination in a wide area network and originating from a media presentation device in the local network
identify a device type of the media presentation device based on the source identification; and
store the device type and an indication of media exposure.
17. An article of manufacture as defined in claim 16, further comprising uploading the device type to a data collector for determination of media presentation device usage statistics.
18. An article of manufacture as defined in claim 16, wherein the instructions further cause the machine to:
intercept a data packet destined for the media presentation device, wherein the inbound data packet represents a response of the outbound data packet;
identify media content based on auxiliary data included in the inbound data packet; and
store the media content identification in association with the device type.
19. An article of manufacture as defined in claim 18, wherein the instructions further cause the machine to:
storing a media request entry comprising a request origin and a request destination based on the outbound data packet; and
determining whether the inbound data packet corresponds to the media request entry; and
storing information representative of the inbound data packet when the inbound data packet corresponds to the media request entry.
20. An article of manufacture as defined in claim 19, wherein determining whether the inbound data packet corresponds to the media request entry comprises determining whether at least one of an origin of the inbound data packet or a destination of the inbound data packet corresponds to the request origin or the request destination.
21. An article of manufacture as defined in claim 16, wherein identifying the device type comprises comparing the source identification to a source identification database.
22.-30. (canceled)
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A stacked memory, comprising:
thin chips which are stacked,
wherein a specified region in a layer of the thin chips is activated using an address signal which passes through a through electrode in the layer, and the through electrode in the layer is connected to a through electrode in an other layer of the thin chips which is adjacent to the layer such that the specified region to be activated in the layer does not overlap a region to be activated in the other layer in a vertical direction.
2. The stacked memory according to claim 1, wherein the through electrode in each layer of the thin chips is connected one after the other in a spiral manner.
3. A stacked memory, comprising:
thin chips which are stacked,
wherein a specified region in a layer of the thin chips is activated using an address signal which passes through a through electrode in the layer, and the layer comprises an activation region distribution circuit for outputting an activation signal to the specified region which has an address different from an address of a region to be activated in an other layer of the thin chips which is adjacent to the layer.
4. The stack memory according to claim 3, wherein said activation region distribution circuit includes:
a region address decoder for decoding the address signal and for outputting an activation signal to activate the specified region which is specified by the address signal; and
an adder or subtractor for incrementing the address signal by +1 or decrementing the address signal by \u22121, and for outputting the resultant address signal to the other layer which is adjacent to the layer.
5. The stacked memory according to claim 3, wherein said activation region distribution circuit includes:
an ID register for holding a value to identify the layer;
an adder for adding the value held in said ID register to the address signal and outputting a resultant address signal; and
a region address decoder for decoding the resultant address signal output from said adder to output an activation signal to activate the specified region which is specified by the resultant address signal.
6. A stacked memory comprising:
a plurality of chips stacked on each other in a vertical direction, each of said plurality of chips including a plurality of memory regions and receiving commonly an address signal to activate a specified memory region of said plurality of memory regions,
wherein a position in a horizontal direction of said specified memory region of a predetermined chip of said plurality of chips is different from a position in said horizontal direction of said specified memory region of a neighboring chip of said plurality of chips which is neighboring to said predetermined chip.
7. The stacked memory according to claim 6, wherein each of said plurality of chips includes a through electrode to receive said address signal.
8. The stacked memory according to claim 7, wherein said through electrode in each of said plurality of chips is coupled one after the other in a spiral manner.
9. The stacked memory according to claim 6, wherein the predetermined chip includes an activation region distribution circuit to output an activation signal to the specified memory region of the predetermined chip, the specified memory region of the predetermined chip including an address different from an address of the specified memory region to be activated in the neighboring chip.
10. The stacked memory according to claim 9, wherein said activation region distribution circuit includes an ID register that holds a value to identify said predetermined chip, an adder that adds the value held in said ID register to the address signal and outputting a resultant address signal, and a region address decoder that decodes the resultant address signal output from said adder to output an activation signal to activate the specified region which is specified by the resultant address signal.