The Nielsen Comapny (us), LLC

Gilles Duterque

Cristina Ion

Seema Varma Srivastava

Methods and apparatus are disclosed to identify session users with cookie information. An example method includes identifying a most recently used cookie based on a comparison of timestamps associated with a plurality of cookies, comparing an identifier of the most recently used cookie to a cookie table, the cookie table associating cookies with the plurality of different users, and when the identifier of the most recently used cookie is associated with one of the plurality of different users, associating subsequent usage activity of the computing device with the one of the plurality of different users.

Methods and apparatus to identify session users with cookie information

Methods and apparatus are disclosed to identify session users with cookie information. An example method includes locating, with a processor, a first storage location associated with a first browser and a second storage location associated with a second browser, identifying, with the processor, a first cookie in the first storage location having a most recent timestamp, when the first storage location includes the first cookie of a first type, establishing a first user associated with the first cookie as a current user of the computing device. The example method includes searching, with the processor, the second storage location for a second cookie having the same type as the first cookie, when the second storage location includes the second cookie, comparing, with the processor, the timestamp of the first cookie and a timestamp of the second cookie to determine a most recent cookie, when the first cookie is the most recent, confirming the first user as the current user of the computing device, and when the second cookie is the most recent, replacing the first user with a user associated with the second cookie as the current user of the computing device.

Methods and apparatus are disclosed to identify session users with cookie information. An example method includes identifying activity associated with a first cookie having a first type, in response to identifying the first, parsing the first cookie to identify a first panelist, when the first cookie includes an identifier associated with a first panelist, associating current usage activity of the computing device with the first panelist, and when the first cookie includes an identifier unassociated with the first panelist, associating current usage activity of the computing device with a guest.

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