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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2007
Geoffrey R. Smith, Mountain View, CA (US);
Iain Merrick, London, GB;
Michael A. Killianey, London, GB;
John Alastair Hawkins, London, GB;
Greg Hecht, Mountain View, CA (US);
Simon Rowe, Berkshire, GB;
Geoffrey R. Smith, Mountain View, CA (US);
Iain Merrick, London, GB;
Michael A. Killianey, London, GB;
John Alastair Hawkins, London, GB;
Greg Hecht, Mountain View, CA (US);
Simon Rowe, Berkshire, GB;
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Set top box logs are received from a television provider and processed to compensate for broadcast latency and generate normalized log data, e.g., log data that are indexed to a relative time. Channel tunes and the channel tune times of the normalized log data can be compared to expected air times of television advertisements on channels, and an impression values, e.g., projected viewers, can be generated for each television advertisement.