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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:
Sep. 10, 2024

Filed:

Jun. 11, 2023
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Michael Sheppard, Holland, MI (US);

Jonathan Sullivan, Hurricane, UT (US);

Michael D. Morgan, Bartlett, IL (US);

Balachander Shankar, Tampa, FL (US);

Edward Murphy, North Stonington, CT (US);

Frank Downing, Orchard Park, NY (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/40 (2011.01); H04H 60/31 (2008.01); H04N 21/258 (2011.01); H04N 21/262 (2011.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04N 21/458 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04N 21/845 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/44213 (2013.01); H04H 60/31 (2013.01); H04N 21/25883 (2013.01); H04N 21/262 (2013.01); H04N 21/458 (2013.01); H04N 21/812 (2013.01); H04N 21/8456 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to generate synthetic respondent level data. Example apparatus disclosed herein include means for generating a synthetic panel corresponding to a duration of time, the means for generating the synthetic panel to: generate a transition matrix corresponding to a first sub-duration of the duration of time and a second sub-duration of the duration of time; generate, based on the transition matrix, a plurality of synthetic panelists and associated viewing data; remove first ones of the synthetic panelists associated with one or more weights that do not satisfy a threshold to generate the synthetic panel corresponding to the duration of time, the synthetic panel representative of audiences of media presented by a plurality of media devices during the duration of time; and generate synthetic respondent level data based on the viewing data associated with remaining second ones of the synthetic panelists.


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