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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2019
The Nielsen Company (Us), Llc, New York, NY (US);
Jeremey M. Davis, New Port Richey, FL (US);
David H. Wright, Safety Harbor, FL (US);
Alexander Topchy, New Port Richey, FL (US);
Cherisse Ponraj, Dunedin, FL (US);
Chris Curtis, Palm Harbor, FL (US);
Jonathan Chazen, Demarest, NJ (US);
Markus Kurt Cremer, Orinda, CA (US);
Sharmishtha Gupta, Fremont, CA (US);
Jeffrey Scott, Oakland, CA (US);
THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for affiliate interrupt detection. An example method disclosed herein includes determining whether a first time period of a first audio signal corresponds to a first affiliate interrupt period based on whether (1) a first type of watermark is detected in the first time period of the first audio signal, and (2) a second type of watermark is detected in the first audio signal outside the first time period but not in the first time period of the first audio signal, and determining whether the first time period of the first audio signal corresponds to the first affiliate interrupt period when watermarks are not detected in the first time period of the first audio signal based on comparison of first signatures with second signatures representing a corresponding first time period of a reference audio signal.