The Nielsen Comapny (us), LLC

Nielsen Consumer LLC

The Nielson Company (us), LLC

Brahmanand Reddy Shivampet

Steven John Splaine

Kevin K Gaynor

Alan Nguyen Bosworth

Madhusudhan Reddy Alla

Amitabh Seth

Steven J Splaine

Alan N Bosworth

Kannan Balaji

Pranab Pandey

Melissa Alexander

Siegfried De Smedt

Ranjit Panda

Jijesh Chandran

Amit Seth

Methods and apparatus to collect distributed user information for media impressions and search terms are disclosed. An example method includes accessing, from a media device, a first identifier and a search term at a first server, the first identifier corresponding to at least one of the media device or a user of the media device, the search term associated with a search request, generating a second identifier based on the first identifier, sending the second identifier and the search term from the first server to a data collection server to facilitate the data collection server to logging the search request, and receiving user information associated with the search request from a database proprietor based on the second identifier.

Methods and apparatus to collect distributed user information for media impressions and search terms

An example method includes accessing a network communication at a database proprietor server, the network communication including one or more audience measurement entity cookie identifiers associated with one or more audience measurement entity cookies, the one or more audience measurement entity cookies from an audience measurement entity server and stored in a client device; generating one or more cookie mappings of the audience measurement entity cookies to respective one or more database proprietor cookies, the one or more database proprietor cookies from the database proprietor server and stored in the client device; and causing transmission of one or more re-direct messages to cause the client device to send the one or more cookie mappings in a batch to the audience measurement entity server, a re-direct message of the one or more re-direct messages including a first database proprietor cookie identifier and a first audience measurement entity cookie identifier.

Methods and apparatus to share online media impressions data

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to monitor auditing devices. An example apparatus includes a workload analyzer to obtain alert data related to a potential new product from an auditing device, and a product analyzer to identify a product within the alert data to determine if the product has been previously identified by another auditing device. In response to determining that the product has not been previously identified, the example apparatus includes an alert analyzer to cluster the alert data based on characteristics associated with an auditor profile of the auditing device, and determine a probability of transmitting the alert data to other auditing devices based on the clustered alert data. The example apparatus also includes an alert authorizer to suppress the alert data from being transmitted to the other auditing devices to reduce an amount of network resources required for subsequent processing when the probability does not satisfy a threshold.

Methods, systems, articles of manufacture and apparatus to monitor auditing devices

Methods and apparatus to share online media impression data are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a communications interface; and a web browser to send a first request to an audience measurement entity via the communications interface; and send a second request via the communications interface to cause a database proprietor to send to the audience measurement entity a cookie mapping of an audience measurement entity cookie to a database proprietor cookie corresponding to a client.

An example method includes receiving a media identifier and a first impression identifier from a media device, the media identifier being indicative of media presented at the media device, receiving the first impression identifier in association with first user information from a first database proprietor as a result of the first database proprietor obtaining a first identifier encrypted with a first encryption key by the media device, and receiving a second impression identifier in association with second user information from a second database proprietor as a result of the second database proprietor obtaining a second identifier encrypted with a second encryption key. The example method further includes identifying the first user information as associated with a user based on the first impression identifier, identifying the second user information as not associated with the user based on the second impression identifier and discarding the second user information.

Methods and apparatus to share online media impression data are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a communications interface; and a processor to generate instructions to be included in a web site and to cause the communications interface to provide the instructions to a web server associated with the web site, the instructions to cause a client, upon execution of the instructions, to initiate a process including sending a first request to an audience measurement entity; and sending a second request to cause a database proprietor to send to the audience measurement entity a cookie mapping of an audience measurement entity cookie to a database proprietor cookie corresponding to the client.

An example apparatus to collect distributed user information for media impressions and search terms includes means for collecting first and second identifiers based on use of an application that does not employ cookies, the first identifier identifying at least one of a device or a user of the device to a first database proprietor that stores first user information associated with the first identifier, and the second identifier identifying the at least one of the device or the user of the device to a second database proprietor that stores second user information associated with the second identifier, and means for sending identifiers to: send the first identifier to a first server associated with the first database proprietor, send the second identifier to a second server associated with the second database proprietor, and send to a data collection server at least one of a media identifier indicative of media accessed via the application at the device or a search term used via the application at the device.

Methods and apparatus to share online media impression data are disclosed. An example method includes receiving, at a database proprietor, a first request from a client device, the first request including an audience measurement entity cookie identifier of an audience measurement entity cookie; and determining, with a processor of the database proprietor, a cookie mapping of the audience measurement entity cookie to a database proprietor cookie that is assigned by the database proprietor and associated with the client device.

An example method to monitor usage of a device includes collecting first and second identifiers based on use of an application that does not employ cookies, the first identifier identifying at least one of the device or a user of the device to a first database proprietor, and the second identifier identifying the at least one of the device or the user of the device to a second database proprietor; sending the first identifier to a first server associated with the first database proprietor, sending the second identifier to a second server associated with the second database proprietor; and sending to a data collection server at least one of a media identifier indicative of media accessed via the application at the device or a search term used via the application at the device.

An example method includes facilitating installation of a data collector on a media device; collecting, via the data collector, a media identifier indicative of media presented at the media device; encrypting a user identifier that identifies the user of the media device, the encrypting of the user identifier based on a first encryption key corresponding to a first database proprietor having first user information associated with the user identifier; encrypting a device identifier that identifies the media device, the encrypting of the device identifier based on a second encryption key corresponding to a second database proprietor having second user information associated with the device identifier; sending the media identifier to a data collection server; sending the encrypted user identifier to a second server associated with the first database proprietor; and sending the encrypted device identifier to a third server associated with the second database proprietor.

An example method includes receiving a media identifier and an impression identifier from a device, the media identifier being indicative of media presented at the device; receiving the impression identifier in association with first user information from a first database proprietor as a result of the first database proprietor obtaining a first identifier sent from the device, the first identifier identifying at least one of the device or a user; receiving the impression identifier in association with second user information from a second database proprietor as a result of the second database proprietor obtaining a second identifier sent from the device, the second identifier identifying at least one of the device or the user; identifying the first and second user information as associated with a same user based on the impression identifier; and associating the first and second user information with the media identifier.

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