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Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2024

Filed:

Jun. 19, 2023
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Mark Cave, Palm Harbor, FL (US);

Joseph Kerkes, Lutz, FL (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/18 (2006.01); H04L 43/0876 (2022.01); H04L 51/043 (2022.01); H04L 51/222 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/1831 (2013.01); H04L 43/0876 (2013.01); H04L 51/043 (2013.01); H04L 51/222 (2022.05);
Abstract

An apparatus and method to automatically determine the location of unknown media devices is disclosed. An example apparatus includes a media device detector to detect an unknown media device identified in monitoring data collected by an audience measurement device at a location determined to have an 'on' status, a media transmission detector to detect a media transmission associated with a device address and an association storer to store an association of the device address, the unknown media device and the location. A probability determiner determines a probability that the unknown media device is located at the location.


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