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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 25, 2014
The Nielsen Company (Us), Llc, Schaumburg, IL (US);
Kevin Michael Hannan, San Mateo, CA (US);
Achilleas Papakostas, Dallas, TX (US);
Albert Ronald Perez, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael Andrew Yonker, Dallas, TX (US);
Austin William Albino, San Francisco, CA (US);
The Nielsen Company (US), LLC, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Example audience measurement methods disclosed herein include accessing demographic information and identification information for subscribers of a service provider based on first data received from an audience measurement entity. Such disclosed example methods also include accessing network log data stored by the service provider for the subscribers using the identification information. Such disclosed example methods further include determining audience measurement data for the subscribers based on the network log data, the demographic information and the identification information, and removing the identification information from the audience measurement data to determine anonymous audience measurement data to send to the audience measurement entity.