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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2023
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2021
The Nielsen Company (Us), Llc, New York, NY (US);
Anand Jain, Ellicott City, MD (US);
John Stavropoulos, Edison, NJ (US);
Alan Neuhauser, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Wendell Lynch, East Lansing, MI (US);
Vladimir Kuznetsov, Ellicott City, MD (US);
Jack Crystal, Owings Mills, MD (US);
The Nielsen Company (US), LLC, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Apparatuses are disclosed for identifying portable devices carried by the same person. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, instructions on the apparatus, and a processor to execute the instructions to access media exposure data from at least one of a plurality of portable computing devices, access motion strings from each of the plurality of portable computing devices, each of said strings comprising a successive binary representation of motion over a first period of time, compare the motion strings in a processor to determine if at least two motion strings match within a predetermined threshold, and identify the devices that produced matching motion strings.