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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2013
Albert Ronald Perez, San Francisco, CA (US);
Mimi Zhang, San Francisco, CA (US);
Albert Ronald Perez, San Francisco, CA (US);
Mimi Zhang, San Francisco, CA (US);
The Nielsen Company (US), LLC, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Example methods and apparatus to de-duplicate impression information. An example method includes accessing a first set of cookies and a set of user identifiers, the cookies and user identifiers corresponding to devices accessing media via the Internet, identifying a pattern in the first set of cookies, obtaining impression information from a database proprietor, the impression information comprising a second set of cookies, identifying a subset of the second set of cookies that are associated with a same person based on the pattern, and associating impressions corresponding to the identified subset with the same person.