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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:
Jun. 03, 2025

Filed:

Jan. 16, 2024
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Padmanabhan Soundararajan, Tampa, FL (US);

Venugopal Srinivasan, Tarpon Springs, FL (US);

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

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04N 21/41 (2011.01); H04N 21/45 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/44218 (2013.01); H04N 21/4126 (2013.01); H04N 21/44222 (2013.01); H04N 21/44224 (2020.08); H04N 21/44226 (2020.08); H04N 21/44231 (2013.01); H04N 21/4524 (2013.01);
Abstract

Example apparatus disclosed herein are to determine a location of a portable device based on location data collected by the portable device, determine whether a person is within a threshold distance of the portable device based on proximity data collected by the portable device, and, when the person is determined to be within the threshold distance of the portable device: (i) infer at least one of a presence or an absence of the person in a media exposure environment based on the location of the portable device, (ii) determine a confidence level that the person corresponds to a member of the panelist household, and (iii) determine an accuracy of presence information collected by a people meter based on the confidence level and the inference of the at least one of the presence or the absence of the person, the people meter different than the portable device.


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