Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methods and apparatus to de-duplicate impression information
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Application No.: US15933126Application Date: 2018-03-22
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Publication No.: US10552864B2Publication Date: 2020-02-04
- Inventor: Albert Ronald Perez , Mimi Zhang
- 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: H04L29/08
- IPC: H04L29/08 ; G06Q30/02 ; G06F16/23 ; G06F16/951

Abstract:
An example apparatus includes means for identifying a pattern in first cookies received via the Internet and stored in a storage device, the first cookies corresponding to devices accessing media via the Internet, means for determining an error between a first demographic estimate based on a potential pattern in the first cookies and a second demographic estimate based on user identifiers corresponding to the devices and received via the Internet, the means for determining the error to determine the potential pattern to be the pattern when the error is less than a threshold, means for accessing impression information received from a database proprietor via the Internet, the impression information including second cookies, and means for identifying a subset of the second cookies that are associated with a same person based on the pattern, the means for identifying the subset to associate impressions corresponding to the identified subset with the same person.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180211276A1 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DE-DUPLICATE IMPRESSION INFORMATION Public/Granted day:2018-07-26
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