Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methods and apparatus to assign viewers to media meter data
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Application No.: US16998596Application Date: 2020-08-20
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Publication No.: US11516543B2Publication Date: 2022-11-29
- Inventor: Samantha M. Mowrer , Molly Poppie , Balachander Shankar , Ieok Hou Wong , Choongkoo Lee , Xiaoqi Cui , David J. Kurzynski , Richard Peters , Remy Spoentgen
- 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: H04N21/466
- IPC: H04N21/466 ; H04N21/442 ; H04N21/45 ; H04N21/422

Abstract:
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to assign viewers to media meter data are disclosed. An apparatus includes memory, and a processor to execute instructions to: determine first probabilities for first panelists in a first household based on a first number of minutes of first media presented by a first media presentation device monitored by a first meter, determine second probabilities for second panelists in a plurality of second households based on a second number of minutes of second media presented by second media presentation devices monitored by a plurality of second meters, compare the first probabilities and the second probabilities to identify a candidate household from the plurality of second households to associated with the first household, and impute respective portions of the first number of minutes to corresponding ones of the first panelists when monitored behavior of the candidate household matches monitored behavior of the first household.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200382837A1 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO ASSIGN VIEWERS TO MEDIA METER DATA Public/Granted day:2020-12-03
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