Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methods and apparatus to determine mobile device application usage in vehicles including media applications
-
Application No.: US16153218Application Date: 2018-10-05
-
Publication No.: US10251078B2Publication Date: 2019-04-02
- Inventor: Susan Cimino , Stanley Woodruff , Achilleas Papakostas , John T. Livoti
- Applicant: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
- Applicant Address: US NY New York
- Assignee: The Neilsen Company (US), LLC
- Current Assignee: The Neilsen Company (US), LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US NY New York
- Agency: Hanely, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC
- Main IPC: H04B17/00
- IPC: H04B17/00 ; H04W24/08 ; H04W4/40 ; H04W8/18 ; H04W8/26

Abstract:
An example apparatus includes an impression logger to store mobile device impressions, the mobile device impressions corresponding to usage of a mobile device application to access first media; a classifier to determine whether a first number of detections of a first service set identifier (SSID) during a first time period satisfies a detection threshold, determine whether a second SSID was detected for a second time period that satisfies a time threshold, increment a counter when the detection threshold and the time threshold are satisfied, classify the first SSID as a vehicle SSID when the counter satisfies a quantity threshold; a logic circuit to, when the first SSID is a vehicle SSID, determine that at least one of the mobile device impressions occurred while the mobile device was in a vehicle.
Public/Granted literature
Information query