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Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2024

Filed:

Dec. 31, 2022
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

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

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

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/21 (2011.01); H04N 21/8358 (2011.01); H04N 21/2187 (2011.01); H04N 21/845 (2011.01); H04N 21/24 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/8358 (2013.01); H04N 21/2187 (2013.01); H04N 21/2407 (2013.01); H04N 21/845 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to use station identification to enable confirmation of exposure to live media. Example apparatus disclosed herein include a watermark data segmenter to determine a media identifier conveyed by a watermark, a detection time determiner to determine a time at which a media meter detected the watermark from a media presentation by a media device, a reference identifier to query a library of reference signatures for a reference signature associated with the media identifier of the watermark and associated with a reference timestamp corresponding to the time at which the media meter detected the watermark, and a viewing type determiner to determine whether the media presentation is live or time-shifted based on whether a result of the query indicates the reference signature does not exist in the library of reference signatures.


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