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Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2024

Filed:

Aug. 26, 2022
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Charles C. Conklin, New Port Richey, FL (US);

Michael Lombardi, Oldsmar, FL (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/442 (2011.01); G06F 16/73 (2019.01); H04N 21/422 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/44222 (2013.01); G06F 16/73 (2019.01); H04N 21/422 (2013.01); H04N 21/44218 (2013.01);
Abstract

An example apparatus includes a record updater to initialize a variable to be equal to a first time of a first record classified as AOT data or to be equal to a last time of a last record classified as AOT data, an operating state identifier to access a first channel of the first record and last channel of the last record, a comparator to compare the first channel with a second channel or a third channel with the last channel, the second channel corresponds to a previously classified record of the first record and the third channel corresponds to a previously classified record of the last record, and a duplicator to, in response to the first channel matching the second channel, or the last channel matching the third channel, create a replica of the second channel or the third channel to store in place of the AOT data.


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