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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 22, 2023
The Nielsen Company (Us), Llc, New York, NY (US);
Sudheer Thota, Oldsmar, FL (US);
The Nielsen Company (US), LLC, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to monitor media are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, machine-readable instructions, and at least one processor to execute the machine-readable instructions to at least establish a direct media network as a Group Owner after performance of a negotiation process with a streaming client device. The at least one processor is to add a client device to the direct media network based on a beacon response from the streaming client device and, after metadata is extracted from first media at the apparatus, cause transmission of the first media to a media presentation device via the direct media network, the metadata representative of an identification of the media, and cause transmission of a message including the identification of the media to a server via a network to credit the media as having been accessed based on the identification.