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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2019

Filed:

Dec. 27, 2013
Applicant:

The Nielsen Company (Us), Llc, Schaumburg, IL (US);

Inventors:

Michael Richard Sheppard, Brooklyn, NY (US);

Matthew B. Reid, Alameda, CA (US);

Alejandro Terrazas, Santa Cruz, CA (US);

Peter Otto Robert Lipa, Tucson, AZ (US);

Brian George Schiller, St. Louis, MO (US);

Assignee:

The Nielsen Company (US), LLC, New York, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/00 (2012.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/32 (2013.01); G06Q 30/00 (2013.01); G06Q 30/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to estimate demographics of users employing social media. An example method disclosed herein includes (1) identifying a social media message regarding an asset, the social media message associated with a user identifier associated with the user, (2) determining demographics associated with a group of people exposed to the asset, (3) associating the user identifier with the asset, and (4) repeating (1) to (3). The example method also includes (5) combining demographics associated with two or more different groups of people with which the user identifier is associated to estimate a demographic profile for the user.


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