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Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2020

Filed:

Sep. 17, 2014
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Robert Peter Borland, Palm Harbor, FL (US);

Jonathon Brett Rubin, Tampa, FL (US);

Anthony B. Stringer, St. Petersburg, FL (US);

Adam Schenker, Tampa, FL (US);

Shailendra Paranjape, Lutz, FL (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/0204 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0201 (2013.01); H04L 67/02 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to monitor media presentations are disclosed. An example method includes collecting demographic information from a user, transmitting the demographic information to a central facility, generating a panelist identifier identifying the user, and hosting a web server to serve the panelist identifier to media that is instrumented with monitoring instructions executing on the media device, the monitoring instructions, when executed, to collect monitoring information and transmit the monitoring information along with the panelist identifier to the central facility.


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