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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:
Aug. 25, 2020

Filed:

Sep. 10, 2018
Applicant:

The Nielsen Company (Us), Llc, New York, NY (US);

Inventors:

David Howell Wright, Safety Harbor, FL (US);

David James Croy, Palm Harbor, FL (US);

Arun Ramaswamy, Tampa, FL (US);

Jan Besehanic, Tampa, FL (US);

Brian Mello, Valrico, FL (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04H 60/31 (2008.01); H04H 60/37 (2008.01); H04H 60/40 (2008.01); H04N 5/765 (2006.01); H04N 7/16 (2011.01); H04N 21/41 (2011.01); H04N 21/4147 (2011.01); H04N 21/433 (2011.01); H04N 21/436 (2011.01); H04N 5/44 (2011.01); H04N 5/775 (2006.01); H04N 5/781 (2006.01); H04N 5/85 (2006.01); H04N 5/907 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/442 (2013.01); H04H 60/31 (2013.01); H04H 60/37 (2013.01); H04H 60/40 (2013.01); H04N 5/765 (2013.01); H04N 7/163 (2013.01); H04N 21/4135 (2013.01); H04N 21/4147 (2013.01); H04N 21/4333 (2013.01); H04N 21/4334 (2013.01); H04N 21/43615 (2013.01); H04N 21/44204 (2013.01); H04N 5/4401 (2013.01); H04N 5/775 (2013.01); H04N 5/781 (2013.01); H04N 5/85 (2013.01); H04N 5/907 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and apparatus for detecting space-shifted media content associated with a digital recording/playback device are disclosed. An example method includes storing viewing data associated with monitoring a first media playback device in memory, detecting, by executing an instruction with a processor, presentation of media by the first media playback device, querying, by executing an instruction with the processor, the first media playback device to determine a retrieval location of the media, and in response to a result of the query indicating the media was retrieved from a second media playback device, updating, by executing an instruction with the processor, the viewing data stored in the memory to indicate the media presented by the first media playback device was space-shifted.


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