The Nielsen Comapny (us), LLC

Joseph Kerkes

Marko Panger

Mark Richard Cave

Marko Usaj

Anton Kljun

Kevin Keqiang Deng

Andrej Barbis

Damien Pilkington-Lewis

Julio Villasante

John Turbessi

Mohd Afwaan Ahmed Quadri

Stanley Wellington Woodruff

John T Livoti

Rajakumar Madhanganesh

Khushboo Agarwal

Jernej Mihelj

Eric R Hammond

In one aspect, a method is described. The method includes detecting a first data packet transmitted through a wide area network (WAN), the first packet representing media presented at a client device of a plurality of client devices at a media exposure measurement location, each client device having a respective device identifier; detecting, within a monitoring interval, one or more second data packets transmitted through a local area network (LAN), each of the one or more second packets specifying a candidate device identifier, where the monitoring interval comprises a time window from the detection of the first packet; generating a score for each candidate device identifier based on a number of the second packets detected within the monitoring interval; based on the score, selecting, from the candidate device identifiers, a target device identifier; and storing data correlating the first packet with the target device identifier.

Monitoring encrypted network traffic data

Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to identify devices. An example apparatus to identify devices comprises at least one memory; machine readable instructions; and processor circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine readable instructions to: determine if a device identification repository includes a first device identifier included in a query; infer first device information for the first device identifier based on a second device identifier and second device information included in the device identification repository; and transmit the first device information in response to the query.

Methods and apparatus to identify electronic devices

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to facilitate device identification. An example apparatus includes a communications analyzer to, responsive to identifying a network address of a media device compare a hardware address associated with the network address of the media device to a list of known hardware addresses, and when the list does not include the hardware address, store the hardware address in a data store, a communications transmitter to transmit the hardware address to a network activity monitoring system, the network activity monitoring system to communicate with a device identifying entity to obtain identifying data of the device based on the hardware address, and a communications data storer to, responsive to obtaining the identifying data from the network activity monitoring system, store the identifying data in a data store.

Methods and apparatus to facilitate device identification

Methods and apparatus to credit streaming activity using domain level bandwidth information are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a packet collector to collect data packets via a network interface, and a traffic analyzer to determine domain data of the data packets and associate bandwidth usage values with the domain data to define bandwidth usage data by domain. The apparatus also includes a bandwidth usage data storage to store the associated bandwidth usage data by domain.

Methods and apparatus to credit streaming activity using domain level bandwidth information

Methods, apparatus, and systems are disclosed to measure media consumption. An apparatus includes a memory, machine readable instructions, and processor circuitry to instantiate or execute the machine readable instructions to access a domain pattern signature representative of a request to obtain media, the domain pattern signature includes (a) a set of domain names and (b) one or more of a location of the request, a time of the request, or a characteristic of a device used to execute the request, compare the domain pattern signature to one or more reference signatures, determine a first reference signature includes (a) a matching set of domain names and (b) one or more of a matching location of the request, a matching time of the request, or a matching characteristic of the device used to execute the request, and credit the domain pattern signature with an Internet site associated with the first reference signature.

Measurement of internet media consumption

Example apparatus disclosed herein are to obtain, from a network monitor, an address associated with one or more network communications used to convey a media stream to a first input device of a plurality of input devices in communication with a media device, query one or more data structures based on the address to identify a first input source of the media device, the one or more data structures to map respective ones of the plurality of input devices to corresponding ones of a plurality of input sources of the media device, the plurality of input sources including the first input source, obtain a watermark from a meter that is to monitor an output of the media device, and identify the first input source of the media device as associated with media presented by the media device in response to determination that the watermark corresponds to the media stream.

Methods and apparatus to determine sources of media presentations

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to redirect internet clients for media monitoring. An example apparatus disclosed herein includes memory, instructions, and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to detect connections between client devices and a first WI-FI connection point, the client devices connected to the first WI-FI connection point via a second WI-FI connection point, when a first number of the connections is less than a second number of possible connections to the first WI-FI connection point, generate an additional connection to the first WI-FI connection point, the additional connection corresponding to at least one of the client devices, and route the client devices to the first WI-FI connection point via the first number of connections and the additional connection.

Methods and apparatus to redirect internet clients for media monitoring

Example methods and apparatus to recognize metered devices connected to proprietary WiFi extenders are disclosed herein. In some examples, a first device comprising at least one memory including a table, and at least one processor to broadcast a first message to a network extender, the first message including a first address associated with a second device and a message identifier, identify, in response to obtaining a second message including the message identifier, a second address embedded on a data link layer of the second message, and store the second address in the table in association with the second device.

Methods and apparatus to recognize metered devices connected to proprietary WiFi extenders

An apparatus and method to automatically determine the location of unknown media devices is disclosed. An example apparatus includes a media device detector to detect an unknown media device identified in monitoring data collected by an audience measurement device at a location determined to have an 'on' status, a media transmission detector to detect a media transmission associated with a device address and an association storer to store an association of the device address, the unknown media device and the location. A probability determiner determines a probability that the unknown media device is located at the location.

Methods and apparatus to locate unknown media devices

Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed herein to identify media presentation by analyzing network traffic. Example instructions cause a machine to generate a traffic profile to reduce a computational burden of identifying streaming media being presented on a media presentation device, the traffic profile including first network traffic data indicative of the streaming media; obtain the traffic profile and second network traffic data corresponding to the streaming media; and generate, in response to a score for the second network traffic data meeting a threshold of similarity, a network traffic analysis report identifying the streaming media being presented on the media presentation device.

Methods and apparatus to identify media presentations by analyzing network traffic

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to determine virtual WiFi data rate. An example disclosed herein includes a control frame receiver to capture control frames from a user device. The example disclosed herein further includes a bitrate calculator to calculate a bitrate for each control frame by dividing a bitmap of a control frame by an amount of time between the control frame and a previously captured control frame. The example disclosed herein further includes an interval timer to control a length of time that the control frames are captured before calculating the virtual bandwidth. The example disclosed herein further includes a virtual bandwidth calculator to calculate the virtual bandwidth after the length of time, the virtual bandwidth calculated by dividing an average bitrate from the control frames by the length of time.

Methods and apparatus to determine virtual WiFi data rate

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed herein to identify media presentation by analyzing network traffic. Example instructions cause a machine to generate a traffic profile to reduce a computational burden of identifying streaming media being presented on a media presentation device, the traffic profile including first network traffic data indicative of the streaming media; obtain the traffic profile and second network traffic data corresponding to the streaming media; and generate, in response to a score for the second network traffic data meeting a threshold of similarity, a network traffic analysis report identifying the streaming media being presented on the media presentation device.

Methods and apparatus to exclude network communication traffic from media monitoring records are disclosed herein. An example apparatus includes a first communication radio to collect records of network traffic on a communication network and a second communication radio to transmit the records identifying a portion of the network traffic to an audience measurement entity. The example apparatus further includes a MAC address determiner to determine the MAC address of the second communication radio and a record filter to remove the network communication associated with the MAC address from the records.

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