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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2024
The Nielsen Company (Us), Llc, New York, NY (US);
Alexander Topchy, New Port Richey, FL (US);
Venugopal Srinivasan, Tarpon Springs, FL (US);
The Nielsen Company (US), LLC, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for media crediting and, more particularly, methods and apparatus of media device detection for media meters. An example computing system disclosed herein to detect media devices presenting media comprises a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, having stored thereon program instructions that, upon execution by the processor, cause performance of a set of operations comprising generating a cluster of media locations based on media identifying information received from a presentation of media at a streaming media device and identifying the streaming media device based on the media devices available at the media locations in the cluster of media locations and an identity of a media device determined to be available in a majority of media locations in the cluster of media locations.