The Nielsen Comapny (us), LLC

Anthony B Stringer

Shailendra Paranjape

Adam Schenker

Robert Peter Borland

Jonathon Brett Rubin

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to monitor media presentations are disclosed. An example tangible computer readable storage medium includes instructions that, when executed, cause a machine to at least instrument media with monitoring instructions; provide the instrumented media to a media device via a hypertext transport secure protocol, the monitoring instructions to cause the media device to request a panelist identifier associated with the media device; detect a media event based on an action of the media device; determine media-identifying information based on the media event; and generate a record including the media-identifying information and the panelist identifier.

Methods and apparatus to monitor media presentations

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to monitor media presentations are disclosed. An example tangible computer readable storage medium includes instructions that, when executed, cause a machine to at least provide a panelist meter to a media device, the panelist meter including a web server to serve a panelist identifier on a local network of a device, provide a software development kit to a media provider, the software development kit to enable the media provider to create monitoring enabled media to request the panelist identifier from the web server of the panelist meter using a web protocol request, transmit the panelist identifier in response to a request from the panelist meter, the request including demographic information associated with a user of the media device, and collect media monitoring data from the monitoring enabled media.

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to monitor media presentations are disclosed. An example method includes collecting demographic information from a user, transmitting the demographic information to a central facility, generating a panelist identifier identifying the user, and hosting a web server to serve the panelist identifier to media that is instrumented with monitoring instructions executing on the media device, the monitoring instructions, when executed, to collect monitoring information and transmit the monitoring information along with the panelist identifier to the central facility.

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to monitor media presentations are disclosed. An example method includes extracting first network packet parameters from a first network packet received at a media device when retrieving a first encrypted web page, storing the first network packet parameters in association with identifying information for the first encrypted web page, extracting second network packet parameters from a second network packet received at the media device from an unknown encrypted web page, when the extension does not collect identifying information for the unknown encrypted web page, comparing the second network packet parameters to the first network packet parameters, and identifying the unknown encrypted web page as the first encrypted web page when the comparison of the second network packet parameters to the first network packet parameters has a similarity above a threshold.

Methods and apparatus to identify media distributed via a network

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to monitor media presentations are disclosed. An example method includes extracting first network packet parameters from a first network packet received at a media device when retrieving a first encrypted web page, storing, at the media device, the first network packet parameters in association with a uniform resource locator for the first encrypted web page, the uniform resource locator received from an extension in a web browser at the media device, extracting second network packet parameters from a second network packet received at the media device from an unknown encrypted web page, when the extension is inoperative, comparing the second network packet parameters to the first network packet parameters, and identifying the unknown encrypted web page as the first encrypted web page when the comparison of the second network packet to the first network packet parameters has a similarity above a threshold.

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St. Petersburg, FL, United States of America

Anthony B Stringer