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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2024
The Nielsen Company (Us), Llc, New York, NY (US);
Michael R. Sheppard, Holland, MI (US);
Jake Ryan Dailey, San Francisco, CA (US);
Damien Forthomme, Seattle, WA (US);
Jonathan Sullivan, Hurricane, UT (US);
Jessica Brinson, Chicago, IL (US);
Christie Nicole Summers, Baltimore, MD (US);
Diane Morovati Lopez, West Hills, CA (US);
Molly Poppie, Arlington Heights, IL (US);
The Nielsen Company (US), LLC, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Disclosed examples to estimate audience sizes of media include a coefficient generator to determine coefficient values for a polynomial based on normalized weighted sums of variances, a normalized weighted sum of covariances, and cardinalities corresponding to a first plurality of vectors of counts from a first database proprietor and a second plurality of vectors of counts from a second database proprietor, a real roots solver to determine a real root value of the polynomial, the real root value indicative of a number of audience members represented in the first plurality of vectors of counts that are also represented in the second plurality of vectors of counts, and an audience size generator to determine the audience size based on the real root value and the cardinalities of the first plurality of vectors of counts and the second plurality of vectors of counts.