Google Inc.

Raimundo Mirisola

Simon Michael Rowe

Ken Krieger

Nicholas Salvatore Arini

Andrew Joseph Alexander Gildfind

Nick Salvatore Arini

Andrew Gildfind

Ant Oztaskent

Yaroslav Volovich

Iain Merrick

Gaurav Bhaya

Robert Stets

Oliver Thomas Gaymond

Kyle Maddison

Tim Volodine

Alastair Peter William Maw

Daniel John Zigmond

Reto Strobl

Andras Orban

The present disclosure is generally directed a data processing system for authenticating packetized audio signals in a voice activated computer network environment. The data processing system can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of auditory data packet transmission over one or more computer networks by, for example, disabling malicious transmissions prior to their transmission across the network. The present solution can also improve computational efficiency by disabling remote computer processes possibly affected by or caused by the malicious audio signal transmissions. By disabling the transmission of malicious audio signals, the system can reduce bandwidth utilization by not transmitting the data packets carrying the malicious audio signal across the networks.

Authentication of audio-based input signals

A method, executed by a processor, is used to determine presence of a viewer at a media device. The method includes receiving viewer biometric data captured by a biometric capture device associated with the media device; determining a category of the viewer based on the captured viewer biometric data; comparing the captured viewer biometric data to a reference to determine a possible identity of the viewer, by: determining a presence probability for the viewer based on a match between the biometric data and the reference, and determining a confidence level for the probability; and when the probability and confidence level equal or exceed a threshold, determining the viewer is present at the media device.

Presence and authentication for media measurement

A panel provider may transmit queries to an audience measurement server to retrieve measurement data for subsets of clients selected via one or more characteristics, such as characteristics of the client, characteristics of the client's device, characteristics of the received content, etc. To protect panel data, the panel provider need not identify these characteristics to the audience measurement server; rather, queries may be made via a plurality of filters that may be applied to client and/or content identifiers. Because the audience measurement server may apply the filters or data structures to select client data for retrieval without knowing what the filter represents, the panel provider's reason for any particular query may be hidden. For further obfuscation, the panel provider may provide a plurality of filters that individually may identify large numbers of clients, but when intersected or applied together, identify only the clients for whom measurement data is required.

Systems and methods for obfuscated audience measurement

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing customized television advertisements. In one aspect, television advertising templates are used for generating customized television advertisements. The television advertisement templates include targeting criteria specifying targeting conditions for the television advertising template, which are conditions for selecting the television advertisement template for an advertisement availability, and content selection criteria specifying availability content associated with an advertisement availability for use in selecting variable advertisement content elements for inclusion in a customized television advertisement generated from the television advertising template. The variable advertisement content elements can include video elements, audio elements, and text elements.

Customized variable television advertising generated from a television advertising template

To provide secure single-source panel audience measurement data while providing confidentiality and security of panel membership, an audience measurement server may capture content identifiers and client identifiers of devices receiving content. A panel provider may generate a probabilistic data structure via a hash of the client identifiers. The audience measurement server may utilize the filter array to extract a subset of measurement data including the data of the panel members, as well as data of some non-panel members as false positives, without being able to distinguish between the members and non-members. The audience measurement server may encrypt the extracted subset of data with each client identifier corresponding to an item of data as a key, and send the encrypted data to the panel provider, thus including both panel and some non-panel data, with the panel provider only able to decrypt data corresponding to its own panel members.

Systems and methods for audience measurement

A system and method for sharing panelist information without providing cookie information are provided. The system includes a panel information receiver to receive information from a panel, the information being defined by each of the panelist's access to cookie information sourced from an online shared content network; a log correlation module to create a log based on a correlation of the information and accesses to the cookies via the online shared content network; a log transmitter to transmit the log to the panel; and a panelist data receiver to receive data from panel, the data being defined as content accesses by each of the panelists.

Sharing panelist information without providing cookies

A computer-implemented method for collecting and managing TV viewership data from multiple TV metering data providers is disclosed. The method includes: receiving an event log file at a distributed computer system that includes multiple computers; dynamically selecting one or more computers according to a predefined sharding function; at each of the selected computers: allocating a set of compressed event records, which corresponds to a subset of the event log file, at predetermined locations within the memory of the computer; and in accordance with a predefined schedule, replicating the compressed event records from a respective one of the selected computers to one or more other computers of the distributed system such that there are at least two replicas of any event record on at least two computers of the distributed computer system.

Method and system for collecting and managing TV viewership data

A method, performed at a computer system having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs executed by the one or more processors, includes receiving respective first set-top box (STB) information from a first plurality of STBs. The first STB information received from a respective STB in the first plurality of STBs includes tuning information for the respective STB in the first plurality of STBs, and power status information for a respective display device coupled to the respective STB in the first plurality of STBs. The method also includes filtering the power status information, and determining a viewership metric for the first plurality of STBs based on the tuning information and the filtered power status information in the first STB information.

Determining set-top box tuning events

A method for providing efficient and accurate estimates of TV viewership ratings through a distributed computer system that includes multiple computers is disclosed. The method includes: receiving a query from a client at the distributed computer system; dynamically selecting one or more computers according to a predefined sharding function; at each of the selected computers, determining a count of qualified event records that satisfy the query; aggregating the respective counts of qualified event records determined by the selected computers; statistically projecting the aggregated count of qualified event records into an estimated total count of qualified event records on the distributed computer system; and returning the estimated total count of qualified event records to the requesting client.

Method and system for providing efficient and accurate estimates of TV viewership ratings

A system and method for re-serving shared content are provided. The system includes a first impression detection unit to detect a user's consumption of the shared content via the metering data; a user detection unit to detect a device associated with the user; a shared content retrieval unit to retrieve the shared content based on the user and the device; and a shared content communication unit to transmit the shared content to the detected device.

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Zug, Switzerland

Raimundo Mirisola