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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2017
Filed:
May. 17, 2016
Applicant:
The Nielsen Company (Us), Llc, Schaumburg, IL (US);
Inventors:
William A. Feininger, Palm Harbor, FL (US);
Scott Brown, Clearwater, FL (US);
Assignee:
The Nielsen Company (US), LLC, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 9/80 (2006.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04N 5/76 (2006.01); H04N 7/173 (2011.01); H04N 21/4147 (2011.01); H04N 21/4402 (2011.01); H04N 21/61 (2011.01); H04N 21/658 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04N 5/93 (2006.01); H04N 21/6587 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/44222 (2013.01); H04N 5/76 (2013.01); H04N 5/93 (2013.01); H04N 7/173 (2013.01); H04N 21/4147 (2013.01); H04N 21/440281 (2013.01); H04N 21/6175 (2013.01); H04N 21/6187 (2013.01); H04N 21/6582 (2013.01); H04N 21/6587 (2013.01); H04N 21/812 (2013.01); H04N 2007/1739 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus to detect content skipping by a consumer of a recorded program are disclosed. An example disclosed apparatus includes a segment identifier to identify a first number of times a media segment was fast-forwarded and a second number of times the media segment was rewound; and a recapture identifier to determine whether the media segment was recaptured based on a comparison of the first number of times and the second number of times.