Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Estimating volume of switching among television programs for an audience measurement panel
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Application No.: US16572135Application Date: 2019-09-16
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Publication No.: US11050498B2Publication Date: 2021-06-29
- Inventor: Jingsong Cui , XiaoTing Liang , Scott John Sereday
- 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: H04H60/32
- IPC: H04H60/32 ; H04H60/31 ; H04H60/66 ; H04N21/258 ; H04N21/658 ; H04H60/63 ; H04H60/44 ; H04N21/438

Abstract:
Disclosed example apparatus to determine volume of switching (VoS) among television programs examine first viewing data associated with a first time period and second viewing data associated with a second time period to identify a first set of panelists represented in both the first and second viewing data; in response to a size of the first set of panelists satisfying both first and second thresholds, estimate the VoS based on a first subset of the first viewing data and a second subset of the second viewing data associated with the first set of panelists; and in response to the size of the first set of panelists satisfying the first but not the second threshold, estimate the VoS based on the first and second subsets, and a third subset of the first viewing data and a fourth subset of the second viewing data associated with a second set of panelists.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200014478A1 ESTIMATING VOLUME OF SWITCHING AMONG TELEVISION PROGRAMS FOR AN AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT PANEL Public/Granted day:2020-01-09
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