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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2013
Applicant:
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Daniel J. Zigmond, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Diane Lambert, Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04H 60/32 (2008.01); H04H 60/33 (2008.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04H 60/45 (2008.01); H04H 60/64 (2008.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/44213 (2013.01); H04H 60/33 (2013.01); H04H 60/45 (2013.01); H04H 60/64 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for inferring a demographic composition of a television audience of a television program. In one aspect, a method extrapolates television audience demographics from rated programs to unrated programs by attributing demographics of rated programs to unrated programs when the rated and unrated program are related by demographically rated channel tunes.