Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Aggregation-based methods for detection and correction of television viewership aberrations
- Patent Title (中): 用于检测和校正电视观众异常的基于聚合的方法
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Application No.: US14018250Application Date: 2013-09-04
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Publication No.: US08930978B2Publication Date: 2015-01-06
- Inventor: Michael Vinson , Kim Hadfield , Amir Yazdani , Aaron Harsh , Maria Loper
- Applicant: Rentrak Corporation
- Applicant Address: US OR Portland
- Assignee: Rentrak Corporation
- Current Assignee: Rentrak Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US OR Portland
- Agency: Perkins Coie LLP
- Main IPC: H04N7/16
- IPC: H04N7/16 ; H04N21/442 ; H04H60/61 ; H04N21/24 ; H04N21/25 ; H04H60/31 ; H04H60/66 ; G06Q10/00 ; G06Q30/00

Abstract:
Various of the disclosed embodiments contemplate television viewing behavior data collected from a plurality of television set top boxes by using aggregation to detect an excess or a deficit in viewership for a group of television set top boxes. In some embodiments, a group of set top boxes can be associated with a particular television service provider, cable television head-end, or data warehouse. Additionally, some embodiments can clean television viewing behavior data by detecting and correcting aberrant viewership in a time series, e.g. based on a weekly or an approximately monthly frequency. In some embodiments, the aberrant viewership can be detected by calculating a minimum expected number of viewers for a day and comparing it to the actual number of households that reported viewers for that day.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140013345A1 AGGREGATION-BASED METHODS FOR DETECTION AND CORRECTION OF TELEVISION VIEWERSHIP ABERRATIONS Public/Granted day:2014-01-09
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