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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 13, 2025
The Nielsen Company (Us), Llc, New York, NY (US);
Keith Tirimba, Tampa, FL (US);
Richard Peters, Paw Paw, IL (US);
Horalia Armas, Palentine, IL (US);
Denis Voytenko, Tampa, FL (US);
Stephen Scott Bell, McHenry, IL (US);
Paul Chimenti, Lakewood, NY (US);
The Nielsen Company (US), LLC, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
An example method includes determining a provider distribution by television viewing area using a provider-reported number of subscribers for a television viewing area and a sum of weights of panelist households that are located within the television viewing area. The method also includes obtaining a target distribution of a characteristic for the television viewing area. In addition, the method includes determining, using iterative proportional fitting, provider-specific distributions of the characteristic for the television viewing area. And the method includes using the provider-specific distributions of the characteristic for the television viewing area as a basis for assigning values of the characteristic to households that are subscribers of the return path data provider and located in the television viewing area.