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Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2018

Filed:

Apr. 11, 2016
Applicant:

The Nielsen Company (Us), Llc, New York, NY (US);

Inventors:

Albert Ronald Perez, San Francisco, CA (US);

Mimi Zhang, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

The Nielsen Company (US), LLC, New York, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/0246 (2013.01); G06F 17/30345 (2013.01); G06F 17/30864 (2013.01); H04L 67/02 (2013.01); H04L 67/22 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01);
Abstract

Example methods and apparatus to de-duplicate impression information are disclosed. An example method includes extracting, by executing a first instruction with a processor, characters from first cookies stored in a first memory space, the first cookies collected from client devices via network communications, and in response to the processor determining that at least two of the first cookies (1) include a same pattern of characters, and (2) correspond to a same first demographic, executing a second instruction with the processor to store, in a second memory space, the pattern of characters in association with the first demographic to indicate that the pattern of characters and the first demographic are both representative of a same first unique audience member.


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