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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:
Aug. 27, 2024

Filed:

Jun. 07, 2023
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

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

Venugopal Srinivasan, Tarpon Springs, FL (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04H 60/00 (2009.01); H04H 60/29 (2008.01); H04H 60/54 (2008.01); H04N 21/2547 (2011.01); H04N 21/258 (2011.01); H04N 21/435 (2011.01); H04N 21/658 (2011.01); H04N 21/8358 (2011.01); H04N 21/84 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/44204 (2013.01); H04H 60/00 (2013.01); H04H 60/54 (2013.01); H04N 21/2547 (2013.01); H04N 21/25866 (2013.01); H04N 21/435 (2013.01); H04N 21/44222 (2013.01); H04N 21/44224 (2020.08); H04N 21/6582 (2013.01); H04N 21/8358 (2013.01); H04N 21/84 (2013.01); H04H 60/29 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for media crediting and, more particularly, methods and apparatus of media device detection for minimally invasive media meters. An example apparatus disclosed herein to detect media devices presenting media includes means for generating a cluster of media locations from a reference population of media locations based on media identifying information received from a presentation of media at an unidentified media device at a first media location, means for determining media devices available at the media locations in the cluster of media locations, means for identifying the unidentified media device based on (1) the media devices available at the media locations in the cluster of media locations and (2) an identity of a media device determined to be available in a majority of media locations in the cluster of media locations.


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