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Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2012

Filed:

Sep. 10, 2007
Applicants:

Geoffrey R. Smith, Mountain View, CA (US);

Iain Merrick, London, GB;

Michael A. Killaney, London, GB;

John Alastair Hawkins, London, GB;

Greg Hecht, Mountain View, CA (US);

Simon Rowe, Berkshire, GB;

Inventors:

Geoffrey R. Smith, Mountain View, CA (US);

Iain Merrick, London, GB;

Michael A. Killaney, London, GB;

John Alastair Hawkins, London, GB;

Greg Hecht, Mountain View, CA (US);

Simon Rowe, Berkshire, GB;

Assignee:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/16 (2006.01); H04H 20/14 (2008.01); H04H 60/29 (2008.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Set top box logs are received from a television provider and processed to identify channel tunes and channel tune times. The channel tunes and channel tune times of the 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.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Smith, Geoffrey. (2012). Log processing to determine impression values using reliable durations (U.S. Patent No. 8127325). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/8127325

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