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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:
Dec. 05, 2023

Filed:

Sep. 19, 2022
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Bo Qiang, Lutz, FL (US);

Jone M. Burr, Palm Harbor, FL (US);

Lois Price, Tampa, FL (US);

Scott L. Brown, Clearwater, FL (US);

Chris Nicotra, Holiday, FL (US);

Arun Ramaswamy, Tampa, FL (US);

Matthew M. Campbell, Tampa, FL (US);

Kevin K. Gaynor, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04H 60/32 (2008.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/44213 (2013.01); H04N 21/44224 (2020.08); H04N 21/812 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to monitor media are disclosed. An example apparatus includes memory; computer readable instructions; and processor circuitry to execute the computer readable instructions to: generate a plurality of errors by comparing (a) a plurality of watermarks adjusted by offsets and (b) reference data, the adjusted watermarks corresponding to watermark data with inaccurate timing information for media; identify an offset of the offsets based on the plurality of errors; and adjust timing information of a watermark of the watermarks using the offset to increase an accuracy of the timing information.


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