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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:
Nov. 17, 2020

Filed:

Nov. 12, 2018
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Daniel Nelson, Tampa, FL (US);

Venugopal Srinivasan, Palm Harbor, FL (US);

Arun Ramaswamy, Tampa, FL (US);

Raghuram Ranganathan, Tampa, FL (US);

Kenneth William McArthur, Dunedin, FL (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/40 (2011.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04N 21/44 (2011.01); H04N 21/4408 (2011.01); H04N 21/258 (2011.01); H04N 21/234 (2011.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); H04H 60/31 (2008.01); H04N 21/8352 (2011.01); H04H 60/40 (2008.01); H04H 60/56 (2008.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/44213 (2013.01); G06K 9/00744 (2013.01); H04H 60/31 (2013.01); H04N 21/23418 (2013.01); H04N 21/25883 (2013.01); H04N 21/25891 (2013.01); H04N 21/4408 (2013.01); H04N 21/44008 (2013.01); H04N 21/44204 (2013.01); H04N 21/44222 (2013.01); H04N 21/8352 (2013.01); H04H 60/40 (2013.01); H04H 60/56 (2013.01); H04H 2201/90 (2013.01);
Abstract

An example apparatus includes means for querying a first table to perform a first query of the first table using a hash corresponding to a first site signature, the first table including hash keys corresponding to respective reference signatures, the first query to obtain, from the first table, first qualifier data descriptive of a first reference signature corresponding to a first hash key; means for querying a second table to perform a second query of the second table, the second query to obtain a plurality of blocks of reference signatures; means for comparing a first block of site signatures with the plurality of blocks of reference signatures, the first block of site signatures to include the first site signature; and means for crediting media as corresponding to reference media represented by the first reference signature when the first block of site signatures matches the plurality of blocks of reference signatures.


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