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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2016
The Nielsen Company (Us), Llc, New York, NY (US);
Narasimha Reddy Goli, Tampa, FL (US);
Gangadhar Jakkula, Tampa, FL (US);
Michael Allen Bivins, San Francisco, CA (US);
Thomas A. Potter, Shelton, CT (US);
Venkata Lakshmi Kumar Pittu, Tampa, FL (US);
Kevin J. Rini, Tampa, FL (US);
The Nielsen Company (US), LLC, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) to credit commercial broadcasts are disclosed. Example commercial crediting methods disclosed herein include accessing commercial crediting feed data corresponding to a monitored commercial. Disclosed example method also include, in response to determining the monitored commercial was distributed via a broadcast network and not a cable network, (1) comparing the commercial crediting feed data to media monitoring system data to identify a code included in a network feed to identify the monitored commercial, and (2) comparing the code to first lineup data to identify crediting data for the monitored commercial. Disclosed example methods additionally include storing the crediting data for the monitored commercial in a data repository.