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- Patent Title: Methods and apparatus to associate geographic locations with user devices
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Application No.: US15818715Application Date: 2017-11-20
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Publication No.: US10057718B2Publication Date: 2018-08-21
- Inventor: Steven J. Splaine , Arun Ramaswamy
- Applicant: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
- Applicant Address: US NY New York
- Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
- Current Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US NY New York
- Agency: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC
- Main IPC: H04W36/00
- IPC: H04W36/00 ; H04W4/02 ; G06Q30/02

Abstract:
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to associate geographic locations with user devices. An example apparatus includes a beacon handler to: extract source identifying information from a beacon transmitted from a user device to an audience measurement entity in response to the user device accessing a webpage, and extract media identifying information from the beacon; a location identifier to, in response to detecting that the source identifying information indicates that the beacon was received from a mobile network query a location service of a provider of the mobile network to retrieve a location associated with the user device; and a location mapper to store the location in association with the media identifying information to credit an impression of the media identifying information to the location.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180077528A1 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO ASSOCIATE GEOGRAPHIC LOCATIONS WITH USER DEVICES Public/Granted day:2018-03-15
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