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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2024
Nielsen Consumer Llc, Chicago, IL (US);
Javier Tovar Velasco, Cigales, ES;
Antonio Hurtado García, Valladolid, ES;
Nielsen Consumer LLC, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods are disclosed to protect datasets. An example apparatus includes interface circuitry, machine-readable instructions, and at least one processor circuit to be programmed by the machine-readable instructions to transform a watermark string to a numeric representation, the numeric representation including position values, determine a row hash value of a dataset satisfies a threshold, the row hash value based on a key value and at least one non-alterable attribute of the dataset, and determine an alteration setting for an alterable attribute based on one of the position values, the one of the position values based on a modulo of (a) an attribute hash value associated with the alterable attribute and (b) a length value of the numeric representation.