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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 12, 2018
The Nielsen Company (Us), Llc, New York, NY (US);
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);
The Nielsen Company (US), LLC, New York, NY (US);
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.