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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2023
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2022
The Nielsen Company (Us), Llc, New York, NY (US);
Balachander Shankar, Tampa, FL (US);
Jonathan Sullivan, Hurricane, UT (US);
Molly Poppie, Arlington Heights, IL (US);
John Charles Coughlin, Oldsmar, FL (US);
Neung Soo Ha, Bethesda, MD (US);
Paul Chimenti, Tampa, FL (US);
Rachel Worth Olson, Elk Grove Village, IL (US);
Samantha M. Mowrer, San Francisco, CA (US);
David J. Kurzynski, South Elgin, IL (US);
Joshua Ivan Friedman, New York, NY (US);
Adam E. Hasinski, Chicago, IL (US);
The Nielsen Company (US), LLC, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to rectify false set top box tuning data. Disclosed examples methods include identifying, by executing an instruction with a processor, in the return path data, first tuning data corresponding to a first group of set top boxes, the first group of set top boxes classified as associated with machine events, determining, by executing an instruction with a processor, a ratio between first tuning events in the return path data and second tuning events in the return path data, the first tuning events attributed to the first group of the set top boxes, the second tuning events attributed to a second group of the set top boxes classified at not associated with machine events, and in response to the ratio satisfying a threshold during a time interval, removing second tuning data associated with the time interval from the first tuning data.