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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2012
Gilles Duterque, San Francisco, CA (US);
Seema Varma Srivastava, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Cristina Ion, Belmont, CA (US);
Gilles Duterque, San Francisco, CA (US);
Seema Varma Srivastava, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Cristina Ion, Belmont, CA (US);
The Nielsen Company (US), LLC, Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus are disclosed to identify session users with cookie information. An example method includes identifying activity associated with a first cookie having a first type, in response to identifying the first, parsing the first cookie to identify a first panelist, when the first cookie includes an identifier associated with a first panelist, associating current usage activity of the computing device with the first panelist, and when the first cookie includes an identifier unassociated with the first panelist, associating current usage activity of the computing device with a guest.