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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. 12, 2023

Filed:

Jan. 23, 2023
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Wendell D. Lynch, East Lansing, MI (US);

Christen V. Nielsen, Dunedin, FL (US);

Alexander Topchy, New Port Richey, FL (US);

Khaldun Karazoun, Tampa, FL (US);

Jeremey M. Davis, New Port Richey, FL (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/439 (2011.01); G10L 19/018 (2013.01); H04N 21/262 (2011.01); H04N 21/238 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/4394 (2013.01); G10L 19/018 (2013.01); H04N 21/238 (2013.01); H04N 21/262 (2013.01); H04N 21/4398 (2013.01);
Abstract

An example apparatus includes at least one processor circuitry to execute or instantiate instructions to identify a media file is scheduled to be accessed by a media device within a first time period after a publishing of the media file was published by a media provider; select a first symbol to be inserted at a first symbol position and a second symbol to be inserted at a second symbol position to identify an access of the media file is to be accessed by the media device within the first time period, the first symbol position in a first bit sequence, the second symbol position in a second bit sequence; encode the first bit sequence in the media file on a first encoding layer of a multilayered watermark, and encode the second bit sequence in the media file on a second encoding layer of the multilayered watermark.


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