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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:
Oct. 11, 2022

Filed:

Aug. 20, 2021
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Narasimha Reddy Goli, Tampa, FL (US);

Michael Allen Bivins, San Francisco, CA (US);

Gangadhar Jakkula, Tampa, FL (US);

Jarrell Jay Mikuta, Oldsmar, FL (US);

Joseph W. Brewer, Tarpon Springs, FL (US);

Kevin Rini, Tampa, FL (US);

Carol A. Lynch, New York, NY (US);

Michael Tierney, New York, NY (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/433 (2011.01); H04N 21/8358 (2011.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04N 21/24 (2011.01); H04N 21/266 (2011.01); H04N 21/658 (2011.01); H04N 21/845 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/8358 (2013.01); H04N 21/2407 (2013.01); H04N 21/26603 (2013.01); H04N 21/433 (2013.01); H04N 21/44204 (2013.01); H04N 21/44222 (2013.01); H04N 21/44224 (2020.08); H04N 21/6582 (2013.01); H04N 21/8456 (2013.01);
Abstract

An example includes a segment collector to: access impression records indicative of media access segments, the media access segments including start times and end times corresponding to media accessed by a panelist; and determine ones of the impression records that include a watermark corresponding to a first media platform presenting the media; a segment classifier to convert a first one of the impression records including the watermark to a converted impression record; and combine the converted impression record corresponding to the first media platform and a second impression record corresponding to a second media platform; and a media creditor to generate audience measurement metrics based on the combined impression records.


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