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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2020
Methods and apparatus to collect distributed user information for media impressions and search terms
The Nielsen Company (Us), Llc, New York, NY (US);
John R. Burbank, New York, NY (US);
Madhusudhan Reddy Alla, Allen, TX (US);
THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Disclosed examples include accessing impression data collected at a media device by a collector installed with an application, the impression data including a first identifier, a second identifier, and a media identifier, the first identifier to identify at least one of the media device or a user of the media device to a first database proprietor, and the second identifier to identify the at least one of the media device or the user of the media device to a second database proprietor, the collector to obtain the first and second identifiers from a memory of the media device; requesting first demographic information from the first database proprietor based on the first identifier and second demographic information from the second database proprietor based on the second identifier; and storing at least some of the first or second demographic information in association with the media identifier in a data store.