Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methods and apparatus to collect distributed user information for media impressions
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Application No.: US17087109Application Date: 2020-11-02
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Publication No.: US11272249B2Publication Date: 2022-03-08
- Inventor: Steven J. Splaine , Adrian Swift
- 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: H04N7/16
- IPC: H04N7/16 ; H04N21/442 ; H04N21/84 ; H04N21/61 ; H04L67/53 ; H04L67/50 ; G06Q30/02 ; H04N21/258 ; H04N21/426 ; H04N21/4782 ; H04N21/658 ; H04N21/4788 ; H04L67/02 ; H04N21/81 ; H04L67/306

Abstract:
A disclosed example apparatus includes means for storing a logged media impression for a media identifier representative of media accessed via the Internet, means for communicating to send a third-party device identifier or a user identifier corresponding to the user to a database proprietor when a user has not elected to not participate in third-party tracking corresponding to online activities, and receive user information from the database proprietor based on the third-party device identifier or the user identifier, and means for processing to log a demographic impression based on the media impression and the user information, and generate an impression report corresponding to the media based on the demographic impression.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210051364A1 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO COLLECT DISTRIBUTED USER INFORMATION FOR MEDIA IMPRESSIONS Public/Granted day:2021-02-18
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