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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:
Jun. 29, 2021

Filed:

Aug. 29, 2019
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Jingsong Cui, Pennington, NJ (US);

Scott John Sereday, Rochelle Park, NJ (US);

Xiaoting Liang, Hoboken, NJ (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04N 21/258 (2011.01); G06Q 30/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/44222 (2013.01); G06Q 30/00 (2013.01); H04N 21/25891 (2013.01); H04N 21/44204 (2013.01);
Abstract

Example program clustering systems disclosed herein are to compare (i) ratios of program ratings to corresponding network ratings with (ii) a threshold to determine adjusted viewing data for respective sites during a monitoring interval, the program ratings and the corresponding network ratings determined for programs tuned on corresponding networks at the respective sites during the monitoring interval, the adjusted viewing data for a combination of a first program and a first site to represent an adjusted amount of time the first program was presented at the first site. Disclosed example program clustering systems are also to cluster the programs into program clusters based on distances between respective combinations of pairs of the programs, the distances based on the adjusted viewing data. Disclosed example program clustering systems are further to output information to identify the program clusters.


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