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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:
May. 18, 2021

Filed:

Sep. 21, 2020
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Christen V. Nielsen, Dunedin, FL (US);

David H. Wright, Safety Harbor, FL (US);

Charles C. Conklin, New Port Richey, FL (US);

Daniel Nelson, Tampa, FL (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04N 21/439 (2011.01); H04N 21/44 (2011.01); H04N 21/84 (2011.01); H04N 21/254 (2011.01); H04N 21/2662 (2011.01); H04H 60/31 (2008.01); H04H 60/56 (2008.01); H04N 21/8358 (2011.01); H04N 21/845 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/44204 (2013.01); H04H 60/31 (2013.01); H04H 60/56 (2013.01); H04N 21/254 (2013.01); H04N 21/2662 (2013.01); H04N 21/4394 (2013.01); H04N 21/44008 (2013.01); H04N 21/8358 (2013.01); H04N 21/84 (2013.01); H04N 21/8456 (2013.01); H04H 2201/90 (2013.01);
Abstract

Apparatus, systems, articles of manufacture, and methods to identify and credit media using ratios of media characteristics are disclosed herein. Example methods disclosed herein include determining a first ratio based on a first time interval and a second time interval of a plurality of time intervals of a reference media signature, the reference media signature based on a media signal associated with reference media, respective ones of the plurality of time intervals corresponding to respective adjacent characteristics identified in the media signal. Disclosed example methods also include determining a second ratio based on a third time interval and a fourth time interval of the plurality of time intervals of the reference media signature. Disclosed example methods further include generating a reference ratio signature based on the first and second ratios, the reference ratio signature used to identify the reference media.


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