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1.

METHODS AND APPARATUS TO RECOGNIZE METERED DEVICES CONNECTED TO PROPRIETARY WIFI EXTENDERS

      
Application Number 18942333
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-11-08
First Publication Date 2025-03-27
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Kljun, Anton
  • Kerkes, Joseph
  • Panger, Marko
  • Usaj, Marko

Abstract

Example methods and apparatus to recognize metered devices connected to proprietary WiFi extenders are disclosed herein. In some examples, a first device comprising at least one memory including a table, and at least one processor to broadcast a first message to a network extender, the first message including a first address associated with a second device and a message identifier, identify, in response to obtaining a second message including the message identifier, a second address embedded on a data link layer of the second message, and store the second address in the table in association with the second device

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04W 16/26 - Cell enhancers, e.g. for tunnels or building shadow
  • H04L 61/5014 - Internet protocol [IP] addresses using dynamic host configuration protocol [DHCP] or bootstrap protocol [BOOTP]
  • H04L 101/622 - Layer-2 addresses, e.g. medium access control [MAC] addresses
  • H04W 8/00 - Network data management
  • H04W 72/20 - Control channels or signalling for resource management
  • H04W 84/12 - WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

2.

MACHINE-LED MOOD CHANGE

      
Application Number 18976016
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-12-10
First Publication Date 2025-03-27
Owner GRACENOTE, INC. (USA)
Inventor
  • Vartakavi, Aneesh
  • Dimaria, Peter C.
  • Gubman, Michael
  • Cremer, Markus K.
  • Summers, Cameron Aubrey
  • Tronel, Gregoire

Abstract

A machine is configured to identify a media file that, when played to a user, is likely to modify an emotional or physical state of the user to or towards a target emotional or physical state. The machine accesses play counts that quantify playbacks of media files for the user. The playbacks may be locally performed or detected by the machine from ambient sound. The machine accesses arousal scores of the media files and determines a distribution of the play counts over the arousal scores. The machine uses one or more relative maxima in the distribution in selecting a target arousal score for the user based on contextual data that describes an activity of the user. The machine selects one or more media files based on the target arousal score. The machine may then cause the selected media file to be played to the user.

IPC Classes  ?

3.

METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO METER MEDIA CONTENT PRESENTED ON A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE

      
Application Number 18971789
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-12-06
First Publication Date 2025-03-27
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Wright, David H.
  • Nasser, Kamal
  • Herrmann, Jeff L.
  • Ramaswamy, Arun
  • Mello, Brian Scott

Abstract

An example apparatus to monitor media that is presented via a mobile device includes: an application monitor to determine when media presentation software is being executed by the mobile device; and a metering information collector to collect at least one of a signature or a code of the media presented by the media presentation software based on the media presentation software being executed by the mobile device.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 21/24 - Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. monitoring of server load, available bandwidth or upstream requests
  • H04H 60/32 - Arrangements for monitoring conditions of receiving stations, e.g. malfunction or breakdown of receiving stations
  • H04H 60/37 - Arrangements for identifying or recognising characteristics with a direct linkage to broadcast information or to broadcast space-time, e.g. for identifying broadcast stations or for identifying users for identifying segments of broadcast information, e.g. scenes or extracting programme ID
  • H04H 60/40 - Arrangements for identifying or recognising characteristics with a direct linkage to broadcast information or to broadcast space-time, e.g. for identifying broadcast stations or for identifying users for identifying broadcast time or space for identifying broadcast time
  • H04H 60/43 - Arrangements for identifying or recognising characteristics with a direct linkage to broadcast information or to broadcast space-time, e.g. for identifying broadcast stations or for identifying users for identifying broadcast time or space for identifying broadcast space, i.e. broadcast channels, broadcast stations or broadcast areas for identifying broadcast channels
  • H04H 60/44 - Arrangements for identifying or recognising characteristics with a direct linkage to broadcast information or to broadcast space-time, e.g. for identifying broadcast stations or for identifying users for identifying broadcast time or space for identifying broadcast space, i.e. broadcast channels, broadcast stations or broadcast areas for identifying broadcast stations
  • H04H 60/50 - Arrangements for identifying or recognising characteristics with a direct linkage to broadcast information or to broadcast space-time, e.g. for identifying broadcast stations or for identifying users for identifying locations of broadcast or relay stations
  • H04H 60/51 - Arrangements for identifying or recognising characteristics with a direct linkage to broadcast information or to broadcast space-time, e.g. for identifying broadcast stations or for identifying users for identifying locations of receiving stations
  • H04H 60/58 - Arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition covered by groups or of audio
  • H04H 60/59 - Arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition covered by groups or of video
  • H04H 60/64 - Arrangements for services using the result of monitoring, identification or recognition covered by groups or for providing detail information
  • H04H 60/66 - Arrangements for services using the result of monitoring, identification or recognition covered by groups or for using the result on distributors' side
  • H04L 67/50 - Network services
  • H04N 7/173 - Analogue secrecy systemsAnalogue subscription systems with two-way working, e.g. subscriber sending a programme selection signal
  • H04N 21/258 - Client or end-user data management, e.g. managing client capabilities, user preferences or demographics or processing of multiple end-users preferences to derive collaborative data
  • H04N 21/414 - Specialised client platforms, e.g. receiver in car or embedded in a mobile appliance
  • H04N 21/426 - Internal components of the client
  • H04N 21/442 - Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. detecting the failure of a recording device, monitoring the downstream bandwidth, the number of times a movie has been viewed or the storage space available from the internal hard disk
  • H04N 21/845 - Structuring of content, e.g. decomposing content into time segments
  • H04W 4/06 - Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]Services to user groupsOne-way selective calling services

4.

METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE SOURCES OF MEDIA PRESENTATIONS

      
Application Number 18977562
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-12-11
First Publication Date 2025-03-27
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Kerkes, Joseph
  • Cave, Mark Richard

Abstract

Example apparatus disclosed herein are to obtain, from a network monitor, an address associated with one or more network communications used to convey a media stream to a first input device of a plurality of input devices in communication with a media device, query one or more data structures based on the address to identify a first input source of the media device, the one or more data structures to map respective ones of the plurality of input devices to corresponding ones of a plurality of input sources of the media device, the plurality of input sources including the first input source, obtain a watermark from a meter that is to monitor an output of the media device, and identify the first input source of the media device as associated with media presented by the media device in response to determination that the watermark corresponds to the media stream.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06F 16/44 - BrowsingVisualisation therefor
  • G06F 16/41 - IndexingData structures thereforStorage structures
  • G06F 16/48 - Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
  • G06F 21/10 - Protecting distributed programs or content, e.g. vending or licensing of copyrighted material
  • G06F 21/16 - Program or content traceability, e.g. by watermarking
  • H04L 43/04 - Processing captured monitoring data, e.g. for logfile generation
  • H04L 43/062 - Generation of reports related to network traffic
  • H04L 67/50 - Network services
  • H04N 21/442 - Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. detecting the failure of a recording device, monitoring the downstream bandwidth, the number of times a movie has been viewed or the storage space available from the internal hard disk
  • H04N 21/8358 - Generation of protective data, e.g. certificates involving watermark

5.

Method and System for Internal Failover of Intermediary Gateway

      
Application Number 18823974
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-09-04
First Publication Date 2025-03-20
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Barbis, Andrej
  • Šik, Peter
  • Bogdan, Kristjan
  • Stumpfel, Bostjan
  • Vranek, Saso

Abstract

An intermediary gateway, such as a streaming meter, with internal failover operation. In an example, the gateway contains (i) main gateway logic, including as a main network interface and main processor with associated data storage holding instructions executable by the main processor to govern operation of the gateway, and (ii) backup gateway logic, including as a backup network interface and backup processor with associated data storage also holding instructions executable by the main processor to govern operation of the gateway. Further, the main program instructions are executable by the main processor to detect a failure of the main processor to communicate on the network and to responsively cause activation of the backup gateway logic as active gateway logic of the gateway, to facilitate continued operation of the gateway.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 21/442 - Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. detecting the failure of a recording device, monitoring the downstream bandwidth, the number of times a movie has been viewed or the storage space available from the internal hard disk

6.

METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR OPTIMIZING STATION REFERENCE FINGERPRINT LOADING USING REFERENCE WATERMARKS

      
Application Number 18959242
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-11-25
First Publication Date 2025-03-20
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Petro, James
  • Nelson, Dan
  • Cross, Deborah
  • Ranganathan, Raghuram

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed selectively generating and storing hashed reference signatures. An example method disclosed herein determining whether watermark coverage of a first media segment satisfies a dropout constraint, the first media segment corresponding to a first monitoring time interval of a media source feed and, when the watermark coverage of the first media segment does not satisfy the dropout constraint hashing first media signatures associated with the first media segment to generate corresponding first hashed signatures and generating first reference data for the first media segment, the first reference data including the first hashed signatures and the first media signatures. The example method further includes, when the watermark coverage of the first media segment satisfies the dropout constraint, generating second reference data for the first media segment, the second reference data including the first media signatures.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04H 60/40 - Arrangements for identifying or recognising characteristics with a direct linkage to broadcast information or to broadcast space-time, e.g. for identifying broadcast stations or for identifying users for identifying broadcast time or space for identifying broadcast time
  • H04H 60/37 - Arrangements for identifying or recognising characteristics with a direct linkage to broadcast information or to broadcast space-time, e.g. for identifying broadcast stations or for identifying users for identifying segments of broadcast information, e.g. scenes or extracting programme ID
  • H04H 60/58 - Arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition covered by groups or of audio
  • H04H 60/59 - Arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition covered by groups or of video
  • H04N 21/439 - Processing of audio elementary streams
  • H04N 21/44 - Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing a video clip retrieved from local storage with an incoming video stream or rendering scenes according to encoded video stream scene graphs

7.

Audio Playout Report for Ride-Sharing Session

      
Application Number 18960863
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-11-26
First Publication Date 2025-03-20
Owner Gracenote, Inc. (USA)
Inventor Modi, Nisarg A.

Abstract

In one aspect, an example method to be performed by a computing device includes (a) determining that a ride-sharing session is active; (b) in response to determining the ride-sharing session is active, using a microphone of the computing device to capture audio content; (c) identifying reference audio content that has at least a threshold extent of similarity with the captured audio content; (d) determining that the ride-sharing session is inactive; and (e) outputting an indication of the identified reference audio content.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G10L 25/51 - Speech or voice analysis techniques not restricted to a single one of groups specially adapted for particular use for comparison or discrimination
  • G06F 3/16 - Sound inputSound output
  • G06F 16/68 - Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
  • G06F 16/683 - Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually using metadata automatically derived from the content

8.

Methods and Systems for Automatically Generating Backdrop Imagery for a Graphical User Interface

      
Application Number 18965230
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-12-02
First Publication Date 2025-03-20
Owner Gracenote, Inc. (USA)
Inventor
  • Vartakavi, Aneesh
  • Scott, Jeffrey

Abstract

In one aspect, an example method for generating a candidate image for use as backdrop imagery for a graphical user interface is disclosed. The method includes receiving a raw image and determining an edge image from the raw image using edge detection. The method also includes identifying a candidate region of interest (ROI) in the raw image based on the candidate ROI enclosing a portion of the edge image having edge densities exceeding a threshold edge density. The method also includes manipulating the raw image relative to a backdrop imagery canvas for a graphical user interface based on a location of the candidate ROI within the raw image. The method also includes generating, based on the manipulating, a set of candidate backdrop images in which at least a portion of the candidate ROI occupies a preselected area of the backdrop imagery canvas, and storing the set of candidate backdrop images.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06T 7/13 - Edge detection
  • G06T 3/403 - Edge-driven scalingEdge-based scaling
  • G06T 7/149 - SegmentationEdge detection involving deformable models, e.g. active contour models
  • G06V 10/25 - Determination of region of interest [ROI] or a volume of interest [VOI]

9.

METHODS AND APPARATUS TO GENERATE A SIGNATURE BASED ON SIGNATURE CANDIDATES

      
Application Number 18967980
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-12-04
First Publication Date 2025-03-20
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Nelson, Daniel
  • Wright, David H.
  • Ranganathan, Raghuram

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to generate a signature based on signature candidates. An example apparatus disclosed herein includes first means for determining an alignment point of a first candidate signature segment and a second candidate signature segment, the first candidate signature segment and the second candidate signature segment include time data and signature data, the alignment point based on the time data of the first candidate signature segment and the time data of the second candidate signature segment, means for comparing a first signature to a second signature at the alignment point, the first signature representative of media included in the first candidate signature segment, the second signature included in the second candidate signature segment, and means for stitching the second signature to the first signature based on the comparison to generate a stitched signature, the stitched signature to be used for media crediting.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 21/8352 - Generation of protective data, e.g. certificates involving content or source identification data, e.g. UMID [Unique Material Identifier]
  • H04N 21/854 - Content authoring

10.

METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE A CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY BASED ON AUDIENCE MEMBER PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS FOR MEDIA AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT

      
Application Number 18968440
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-12-04
First Publication Date 2025-03-20
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Sheppard, Michael
  • Donato, Paul
  • Doe, Peter C.

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems to determine a conditional probability based on audience member probability distributions for media audience measurement are disclosed. Disclosed example methods for media audience measurement include determining a first audience probability distribution for a first member of a household and determining a second audience probability distribution for a second member of the household. Disclosed example methods also include calculating probabilities for audience combinations of the first member and the second member of the household based on the first audience probability distribution and the second audience probability distribution. Disclosed example methods further include determining a household audience characteristic probability based on the calculated probabilities of the audience combinations of the household. The household audience characteristic indicates likelihoods of different possible audience compositions of the household for a media event.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06N 7/01 - Probabilistic graphical models, e.g. probabilistic networks
  • H04H 60/45 - Arrangements for identifying or recognising characteristics with a direct linkage to broadcast information or to broadcast space-time, e.g. for identifying broadcast stations or for identifying users for identifying users
  • H04N 21/442 - Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. detecting the failure of a recording device, monitoring the downstream bandwidth, the number of times a movie has been viewed or the storage space available from the internal hard disk
  • H04N 21/45 - Management operations performed by the client for facilitating the reception of or the interaction with the content or administrating data related to the end-user or to the client device itself, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies or resolving scheduling conflicts
  • H04N 21/466 - Learning process for intelligent management, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies

11.

METHODS AND APPARATUS TO AUTOMATE THE RECORDING OF MEDIA FOR SIGNATURE CREATION

      
Application Number 18957299
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-11-22
First Publication Date 2025-03-13
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Borawski, Albert T.
  • Paranjape, Shailendra
  • Smith, Nigel
  • Rosell, Eric M.
  • Ferrell, John
  • Salazar, Jessica
  • Nibert, Morgan
  • Christie, David

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to automate the recording of media for signature creation. Reference signature requests are received from an employee or user. The reference signature request is distributed to automated capture tool circuitry, which plays the relevant media for a meter and provides a status update. When a signature is created, a status update indicates whether it is considered to be a reference signature. Prioritization circuitry assigns and updates a priority for each of the requests according to the priority of other requests, the status updates, and a priority rule set. Reference signature requests with the highest priority are assigned to automated capture tool circuitry for completion before lower priority requests.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 21/258 - Client or end-user data management, e.g. managing client capabilities, user preferences or demographics or processing of multiple end-users preferences to derive collaborative data
  • H04N 21/84 - Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors

12.

METHODS AND APPARATUS TO CORRELATE CENSUS MEASUREMENT DATA WITH PANEL DATA

      
Application Number 18957703
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-11-23
First Publication Date 2025-03-13
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor Mcmillan, F. Gavin

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, and systems are disclosed to correlate census measurement data with panel data. An example system includes accessing means to access a message sent from a requesting device in response to accessing media that includes a tag causing the requesting device to send the message to a monitoring entity with an identification of a geographic location of the requesting device and media identifying information. The example system also includes identification means to determine locations of a plurality of panelist homes and compare the geographic location of the requesting device with the locations of the panelist homes. The example system also includes associating means to identify a user of the requesting device as a panelist residing at the first panelist home and associate the media identifying information with panelist data associated with the first one of the panelist homes.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 21/258 - Client or end-user data management, e.g. managing client capabilities, user preferences or demographics or processing of multiple end-users preferences to derive collaborative data
  • H04N 21/61 - Network physical structureSignal processing

13.

DEDUPLICATION ACROSS MULTIPLE DIFFERENT DATA SOURCES TO IDENTIFY COMMON DEVICES

      
Application Number 18961388
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-11-26
First Publication Date 2025-03-13
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Olson, Rachel Worth
  • Anderson, Michael Evan
  • Sriram, Rishi
  • Orton, Margaret M.
  • Miri, Fatemehossadat
  • Mowrer, Samantha M.
  • Kurzynski, David J.
  • Poppie, Molly

Abstract

Example methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) to deduplicate common devices across multiple data sources are disclosed. An example apparatus includes instructions to identify a first device in a first data source and a second device in a second data source as a possible common device, calculate at least one of a station duration metric, a time match metric or a station path metric, the station duration metric, the time match metric based times of day that the first device tuned to a second set of stations and times of day that the second device tuned to the second set of stations, determine a score based on the at least one of the station duration metric, the time match metric, or the station path metric, and determine when the first device and the second device are a common device based on the score.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06F 16/215 - Improving data qualityData cleansing, e.g. de-duplication, removing invalid entries or correcting typographical errors
  • H04N 21/442 - Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. detecting the failure of a recording device, monitoring the downstream bandwidth, the number of times a movie has been viewed or the storage space available from the internal hard disk

14.

FORCING USE OF STREAMING METER AS ALTERNATE GATEWAY TO FACILITATE MEDIA-EXPOSURE MEASUREMENT

      
Application Number US2024045104
Publication Number 2025/054153
Status In Force
Filing Date 2024-09-04
Publication Date 2025-03-13
Owner THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Banič, Ignac
  • Mihelj, Jernej
  • Sik, Peter
  • Villasante, Julio, Cesar
  • Panger, Marko

Abstract

A method and system to facilitate measuring of media exposure. An example method comprises a streaming meter on a LAN configuring a host device on the LAN to use the streaming meter as a default gateway of the host device, including the streaming meter acquiring assignment from a router on the LAN of all IP addresses assignable by the router, to prevent the router from functioning as a DHCP server for the host device, and the streaming meter then responding to DHCP messaging from the host device to assign an IP address to the host device and set the host device to use the streaming meter as the default gateway of the host device. In the example method, the streaming meter then monitors network traffic of the host device that flows through the streaming meter and reports the monitored network traffic to a media-measurement platform to facilitate media-exposure measurement.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06Q 30/0201 - Market modellingMarket analysisCollecting market data
  • G06Q 30/0251 - Targeted advertisements
  • H04L 61/5014 - Internet protocol [IP] addresses using dynamic host configuration protocol [DHCP] or bootstrap protocol [BOOTP]
  • H04L 61/5038 - Address allocation for local use, e.g. in LAN or USB networks, or in a controller area network [CAN]
  • H04L 67/50 - Network services
  • H04N 21/258 - Client or end-user data management, e.g. managing client capabilities, user preferences or demographics or processing of multiple end-users preferences to derive collaborative data

15.

METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO IDENTIFY MEDIA CONTENT USING WATERMARK METADATA AND MAPPED AUDIO SIGNATURES

      
Application Number 18826181
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-09-06
First Publication Date 2025-03-13
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Ranganathan, Raghuram
  • Rini, Kevin
  • Brewer, Joseph Wyatt
  • Petro, James
  • Tapse, Sandeep

Abstract

Examples described herein include methods and computing systems which may include examples of mapping watermark metadata to tagged signatures and matching those tagged signatures to mapped reference signatures. A tagged signature is a signature that is identified using a mapping of watermark metadata. The mapping to watermark metadata of a tagged signature (e.g., having stored data associated with the tagged signature) can include the use of a source identifier (e.g., a station identification), timestamps, a media asset identifier, and a time-in-content range. Computing systems are employed to identify media content using matched reference signatures, thereby also facilitating crediting of media content. For example, an audience measurement entity can credit media content streams as having been viewed by an audience using such tagged signature

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06F 21/16 - Program or content traceability, e.g. by watermarking
  • H04N 21/8358 - Generation of protective data, e.g. certificates involving watermark

16.

SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE TO MEASURE ONLINE AUDIENCES

      
Application Number 18956270
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-11-22
First Publication Date 2025-03-13
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Oliver, James
  • Stackhouse, Herbert F.
  • Doe, Peter C.
  • Tang, Qian
  • Ha, Michelle

Abstract

Methods and apparatus to monitor media content at a content display site are described. An example apparatus includes processor circuitry to execute computer readable instructions to: estimate a first audience size associated with unmeasured locations based on distributed census-based page views and a measured panel data; generate a virtual panel based on the first audience size to enable more accurate estimation of traffic from the unmeasured locations by weighting second panelists associated with the unmeasured locations and reweighting a subset of the second panelists; and determine additional activity not represented by the measure panel data; and calculate an online audience based on a measured location audience, the virtual panel, and the additional activity.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06Q 30/0204 - Market segmentation
  • G06N 5/02 - Knowledge representationSymbolic representation
  • G06Q 30/0242 - Determining effectiveness of advertisements
  • H04L 43/0876 - Network utilisation, e.g. volume of load or congestion level

17.

Content Recognition with Audio Fingerprints When Dialog Enhancement is Enabled on Playback Devices

      
Application Number 18809616
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-08-20
First Publication Date 2025-03-06
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Cooper, Timothy Scott
  • Ficco, Mark Charles
  • Topchy, Alexander

Abstract

A method and system for helping to facilitate fingerprint-based automatic content recognition when audio may be subject to dialog enhancement (DE). An example method includes, for each of multiple audio time segments, (a) a computing system generating alternate digital reference fingerprint data representing the audio time segment, including at least (i) non-DE reference fingerprint data representing the audio time segment without the audio time segment being dialog enhanced and (ii) DE reference fingerprint data representing the audio time segment with the audio time segment being dialog enhanced and (b) providing the generated alternate digital reference fingerprint data for storage in a reference-fingerprint library for use in fingerprint matching. Including the DE reference fingerprint data may help to facilitate more robust matching of query fingerprint data that represents dialog enhanced audio content.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 21/4402 - Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing a video clip retrieved from local storage with an incoming video stream or rendering scenes according to encoded video stream scene graphs involving reformatting operations of video signals for household redistribution, storage or real-time display
  • H04N 21/439 - Processing of audio elementary streams

18.

Forcing Use of Streaming Meter as Alternate Gateway to Facilitate Media-Exposure Measurement

      
Application Number 18824108
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-09-04
First Publication Date 2025-03-06
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Banic, Ignac
  • Mihelj, Jernej
  • Šik, Peter
  • Villasante, Julio Cesar
  • Panger, Marko

Abstract

A method and system to facilitate measuring of media exposure. An example method comprises a streaming meter on a LAN configuring a host device on the LAN to use the streaming meter as a default gateway of the host device, including the streaming meter acquiring assignment from a router on the LAN of all IP addresses assignable by the router, to prevent the router from functioning as a DHCP server for the host device, and the streaming meter then responding to DHCP messaging from the host device to assign an IP address to the host device and set the host device to use the streaming meter as the default gateway of the host device. In the example method, the streaming meter then monitors network traffic of the host device that flows through the streaming meter and reports the monitored network traffic to a media-measurement platform to facilitate media-exposure measurement.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04L 61/5014 - Internet protocol [IP] addresses using dynamic host configuration protocol [DHCP] or bootstrap protocol [BOOTP]
  • H04L 12/66 - Arrangements for connecting between networks having differing types of switching systems, e.g. gateways
  • H04L 61/103 - Mapping addresses of different types across network layers, e.g. resolution of network layer into physical layer addresses or address resolution protocol [ARP]
  • H04L 61/5053 - Lease timeRenewal aspects

19.

MEDIA DEVICE ON/OFF DETECTION USING RETURN PATH DATA

      
Application Number 18950686
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-11-18
First Publication Date 2025-03-06
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Grotelueschen, Michael
  • Anderson, Michael Evan
  • Miri, Fatemehossadat
  • Fassois, Demetrios
  • Chandra, Tushar
  • Kurzynski, David

Abstract

Example methods disclosed herein include accessing common homes data for a group of common homes, the common homes data including return path data and panel meter data. Disclosed example methods also include accessing common homes data for a group of common homes, the common homes data including first return path data and corresponding panel meter data associated with respective ones of the common homes, grouping the common homes data into view segments, classifying the view segments based on whether the return path data in respective ones of the view segments has matching panel meter data to determine labeled view segments, generating features from the labeled view segments, training a machine learning algorithm based on the features, and applying second return path data to the trained machine learning algorithm to determine whether a media device associated with the second return path data is on or off.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06N 7/01 - Probabilistic graphical models, e.g. probabilistic networks
  • G06F 16/22 - IndexingData structures thereforStorage structures
  • G06F 16/28 - Databases characterised by their database models, e.g. relational or object models
  • G06N 5/01 - Dynamic search techniquesHeuristicsDynamic treesBranch-and-bound
  • G06N 20/20 - Ensemble learning
  • G06Q 30/0201 - Market modellingMarket analysisCollecting market data

20.

REDUCING SIGNATURE MATCHING UNCERTAINTY IN MEDIA MONITORING SYSTEMS

      
Application Number 18951574
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-11-18
First Publication Date 2025-03-06
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC. (USA)
Inventor Srinivasan, Venugopal

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to reduce signature matching uncertainty in media monitoring systems are disclosed. Disclosed example apparatus are to compare first groups of monitored signatures representative of monitored media with second groups of reference signatures representative of respective reference media to determine a first sequence of match results for an observation period, the first and second groups to have a first size corresponding to a first number of signatures. Disclosed example apparatus are also to compare, in response to a discontinuity in the first sequence of signature match results, third groups of monitored signatures from the sequence of monitored signatures with fourth groups of reference signatures from the respective sequences of reference signatures to determine a second sequence of signature match results for the observation period, the third groups and the fourth groups to have a second size greater than the first size.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 21/24 - Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. monitoring of server load, available bandwidth or upstream requests
  • H04N 21/234 - Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing of video streams or manipulating encoded video stream scene graphs
  • H04N 21/25 - Management operations performed by the server for facilitating the content distribution or administrating data related to end-users or client devices, e.g. end-user or client device authentication or learning user preferences for recommending movies
  • H04N 21/8547 - Content authoring involving timestamps for synchronizing content

21.

METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MEASURE EXPOSURE TO STREAMING MEDIA

      
Application Number 18952432
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-11-19
First Publication Date 2025-03-06
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Ramaswamy, Arun
  • Bosworth, Alan
  • Gaynor, Kavin K.
  • Goli, Narasimha Raddy

Abstract

Methods and apparatus to measure exposure to streaming media are disclosed. An example apparatus includes for measurement of exposure to streaming media includes at least one memory, instructions in the apparatus, and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to: access metadata identifying media presented to a user, and cookie data, the metadata and the cookie data provided by a client device; determine whether the cookie data identifies the user to a database proprietor; in response to a determination that the cookie data does not identify the user to the database proprietor, send a redirect message instructing the client device to retransmit the metadata to a next-hop location; and in response to a determination that the cookie data does identify the user to the database proprietor, provide the metadata and a user identifier to a central facility.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 21/24 - Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. monitoring of server load, available bandwidth or upstream requests
  • G06Q 30/02 - MarketingPrice estimation or determinationFundraising
  • H04L 65/00 - Network arrangements, protocols or services for supporting real-time applications in data packet communication
  • H04L 65/61 - Network streaming of media packets for supporting one-way streaming services, e.g. Internet radio
  • H04L 65/613 - Network streaming of media packets for supporting one-way streaming services, e.g. Internet radio for the control of the source by the destination
  • H04L 65/75 - Media network packet handling
  • H04L 65/80 - Responding to QoS
  • H04L 67/02 - Protocols based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
  • H04L 67/563 - Data redirection of data network streams
  • H04L 67/565 - Conversion or adaptation of application format or content
  • H04N 21/2387 - Stream processing in response to a playback request from an end-user, e.g. for trick-play
  • H04N 21/258 - Client or end-user data management, e.g. managing client capabilities, user preferences or demographics or processing of multiple end-users preferences to derive collaborative data
  • H04N 21/44 - Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing a video clip retrieved from local storage with an incoming video stream or rendering scenes according to encoded video stream scene graphs
  • H04N 21/442 - Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. detecting the failure of a recording device, monitoring the downstream bandwidth, the number of times a movie has been viewed or the storage space available from the internal hard disk
  • H04N 21/45 - Management operations performed by the client for facilitating the reception of or the interaction with the content or administrating data related to the end-user or to the client device itself, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies or resolving scheduling conflicts
  • H04N 21/61 - Network physical structureSignal processing
  • H04N 21/81 - Monomedia components thereof
  • H04N 21/8352 - Generation of protective data, e.g. certificates involving content or source identification data, e.g. UMID [Unique Material Identifier]
  • H04N 21/84 - Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors
  • H04N 21/858 - Linking data to content, e.g. by linking an URL to a video object or by creating a hotspot

22.

Random Address Data Matching

      
Application Number 18800643
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-08-12
First Publication Date 2025-02-27
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Mccoy, Holly
  • Blanco, Oscar
  • Berrada, Meryem
  • Lerch, Ronny

Abstract

In one example, a method is described. The method includes: obtaining a non-persistent device identifier; obtaining network traffic data specifying, for each of multiple network devices, a network device identifier, one or more network device parameters, and a network time stamp; comparing user device parameters to network device parameters; selecting, based on the parameter comparison, one or more candidate device identifiers; comparing, for each candidate device identifier, the user device time stamp with the network time stamp associated with the candidate device identifier; selecting, based on the time stamp comparison, a target device identifier from the one or more candidate device identifiers; and updating the non-persistent device identifier associated with the user-associated device at a media exposure measurement location using the target device identifier selected from the one or more candidate device identifiers included in the network traffic data.

IPC Classes  ?

23.

Predictive Measurement of End-User Consumption of Scheduled Multimedia Transmissions

      
Application Number 18947867
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-11-14
First Publication Date 2025-02-27
Owner GRACENOTE, INC. (USA)
Inventor
  • Kazemi Rad, Melissa
  • Kedar, Tal
  • Zanotto, Matteo
  • Mooney, Garrett
  • Chakraborty, Sritanu
  • Edwards, Dominic Bryan

Abstract

Methods and systems for determining projected amounts of viewing time of a TV program by end-users are disclosed. Data including end-user type, a TV program descriptor, TV network, and start time of transmission may be received. End-users may be identified by end-user type. A machine-learning model applied to the data and viewing history data may generate parameters for determining how much of the TV program they are each expected to view during a sequence of time intervals. For each end-user, the parameters may be applied to make a determination of temporal-fraction values of the TV program the end-user is expected to view during the time interval, and for each time interval, conditioning values used to condition the determination for the next time interval. Projected subtotals of viewing time may be determined, based on the temporal-fraction values. A projected total amount viewing time of the TV program may then be determined.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 21/25 - Management operations performed by the server for facilitating the content distribution or administrating data related to end-users or client devices, e.g. end-user or client device authentication or learning user preferences for recommending movies
  • H04N 21/24 - Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. monitoring of server load, available bandwidth or upstream requests
  • H04N 21/258 - Client or end-user data management, e.g. managing client capabilities, user preferences or demographics or processing of multiple end-users preferences to derive collaborative data
  • H04N 21/262 - Content or additional data distribution scheduling, e.g. sending additional data at off-peak times, updating software modules, calculating the carousel transmission frequency, delaying a video stream transmission or generating play-lists

24.

METHODS AND APPARATUS TO IDENTIFY USER PRESENCE TO A METER

      
Application Number 18828042
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-09-09
First Publication Date 2025-02-27
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor Watts, David

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to identify user presence to a meter. An example apparatus includes memory, instructions, and at least one hardware processor to execute the instructions to at least: obtain presence information from a configuration device, the configuration device separate from the apparatus, the presence information indicating that user is present at the apparatus; verify the presence information matches user information, the user information stored in a memory of the apparatus; cause a confirmation prompt to be displayed on the configuration device, the confirmation prompt to indicate the presence information was obtained by the apparatus; and store the presence information in memory.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 21/442 - Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. detecting the failure of a recording device, monitoring the downstream bandwidth, the number of times a movie has been viewed or the storage space available from the internal hard disk
  • H04N 21/422 - Input-only peripherals, e.g. global positioning system [GPS]
  • H04N 21/439 - Processing of audio elementary streams
  • H04N 21/475 - End-user interface for inputting end-user data, e.g. PIN [Personal Identification Number] or preference data

25.

METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE MEDIA VIEWING INFORMATION FOR HYBRID CONTENT DELIVERY

      
Application Number 18937196
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-11-05
First Publication Date 2025-02-20
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Topchy, Alexander
  • Kuznetsov, Vladimir

Abstract

Methods and apparatus to determine media viewing information for hybrid content delivery are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, machine readable instructions, and processor circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine readable instructions to monitor network traffic associated with at least one device during a media session, determine viewing information associated with the media session based on a consumption data message in the network traffic, the consumption data message transmitted by the at least one device, determine a program identifier of primary content received by the at least one device, the program identifier indicative of a program presented as the primary content by the at least one device, associate a panelist identifier with the viewing information and the program identifier of the primary content, and generate a media session report based on the panelist identifier, the viewing information, and the program identifier.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 21/442 - Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. detecting the failure of a recording device, monitoring the downstream bandwidth, the number of times a movie has been viewed or the storage space available from the internal hard disk
  • H04N 21/235 - Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
  • H04N 21/24 - Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. monitoring of server load, available bandwidth or upstream requests
  • H04N 21/258 - Client or end-user data management, e.g. managing client capabilities, user preferences or demographics or processing of multiple end-users preferences to derive collaborative data

26.

METHODS AND APPARATUS TO ESTIMATE AUDIENCE SIZES OF MEDIA USING DEDUPLICATION BASED ON BINOMIAL SKETCH DATA

      
Application Number 18939035
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-11-06
First Publication Date 2025-02-20
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Sheppard, Michael
  • Sullivan, Jonathan L.
  • Dailey, Jake Ryan
  • Forthomme, Damien
  • Brinson, Jessica D.
  • Poppie, Molly
  • Summers, Christie Nicole
  • Morovati Lopez, Diane

Abstract

Methods and apparatus to estimate audience sizes using deduplication based on binomial sketch data are disclosed. An apparatus includes processor circuitry to instantiate coefficient analyzer circuitry to determine coefficient values of a polynomial based on (i) variances in values in the first sketch data and second sketch data, (ii) a first cardinality of the first sketch data, and (iii) a second cardinality of the second sketch data. The processor circuitry to instantiate overlap analyzer circuitry to determine a real root of the polynomial, the real root corresponding to the quantity of the second subscribers that are duplicates of the first subscribers. The processor circuitry to instantiate report generator circuitry to estimate a deduplicated audience size based on the estimate of the quantity of the second subscribers that are duplicates of the first subscribers and the first and second cardinalities.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06F 16/215 - Improving data qualityData cleansing, e.g. de-duplication, removing invalid entries or correcting typographical errors
  • G06F 16/22 - IndexingData structures thereforStorage structures

27.

FREQUENCY BAND SELECTION AND PROCESSING TECHNIQUES FOR MEDIA SOURCE DETECTION

      
Application Number 18925233
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-10-24
First Publication Date 2025-02-13
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Panger, Marko
  • Kerkes, Joe
  • Arh, Joze

Abstract

Example methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture (i.e., physical storage media) to perform media source detection based on frequency band selection and processing are disclosed. Example meters disclosed herein are to compare a first audio signal from a monitored media device with a second audio signal from a first one of a plurality of media sources in communication with the monitored media device to determine a sequence of match results, the first audio signal associated with media presented by the media device. Disclosed example meters are also to compute a standard deviation of time delays associated with respective ones of the match results. Disclosed example meters are further to determine whether the first one of the media sources is a source of the media presented by the monitored media device based on the standard deviation.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 21/439 - Processing of audio elementary streams
  • H04N 7/10 - Adaptations for transmission by electrical cable
  • H04N 21/41 - Structure of clientStructure of client peripherals
  • H04N 21/422 - Input-only peripherals, e.g. global positioning system [GPS]
  • H04N 21/436 - Interfacing a local distribution network, e.g. communicating with another STB or inside the home
  • H04N 21/442 - Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. detecting the failure of a recording device, monitoring the downstream bandwidth, the number of times a movie has been viewed or the storage space available from the internal hard disk
  • H04N 21/462 - Content or additional data management e.g. creating a master electronic program guide from data received from the Internet and a Head-end or controlling the complexity of a video stream by scaling the resolution or bit-rate based on the client capabilities

28.

MONITORING STREAMING MEDIA CONTENT

      
Application Number 18925729
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-10-24
First Publication Date 2025-02-13
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Ramaswamy, Arun
  • Besehanic, Jan

Abstract

Example apparatus disclosed herein are to send a request to a media provider that is to cause the media provider to initiate transmission of a transport stream that is to provide streaming media to a media presentation device. Disclosed example apparatus are also to extract metering metadata from a data file to be received by the media presentation device after the transmission of the transport stream is initiated by the media provider but before receipt by the media presentation device of the transport stream that is to provide the streaming media to the media presentation device, the data file associated with the transport stream. Disclosed example apparatus are further to report the metering metadata to a server in response to a detected event, and access an identification of secondary media responsive to the report of the metering metadata, the secondary media to be presented by the media presentation device.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04L 43/06 - Generation of reports
  • H04L 65/61 - Network streaming of media packets for supporting one-way streaming services, e.g. Internet radio
  • H04L 65/70 - Media network packetisation
  • H04L 65/80 - Responding to QoS
  • H04N 1/32 - Circuits or arrangements for control or supervision between transmitter and receiver
  • H04N 19/46 - Embedding additional information in the video signal during the compression process
  • H04N 21/235 - Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
  • H04N 21/658 - Transmission by the client directed to the server
  • H04N 21/81 - Monomedia components thereof
  • H04N 21/8358 - Generation of protective data, e.g. certificates involving watermark

29.

Methods and Apparatus for Audio Equalization Based on Variant Selection

      
Application Number 18926305
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-10-25
First Publication Date 2025-02-13
Owner Gracenote, Inc. (USA)
Inventor
  • Coover, Robert
  • Renner, Joseph
  • Summers, Cameron A.

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed methods and apparatus for audio equalization based on variant selection. An example apparatus includes a processor to obtain training data, the training data including a plurality of reference audio signals each associated with a variant of music and organize the training data into a plurality of entries based on the plurality of reference audio signals, a training model executor to execute a neural network model using the training data, and a model trainer to train the neural network model by updating at least one weight corresponding to one of the entries in the training data when the neural network model does not satisfy a training threshold.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06N 3/08 - Learning methods
  • G06F 3/16 - Sound inputSound output
  • G06N 3/04 - Architecture, e.g. interconnection topology
  • G10L 25/30 - Speech or voice analysis techniques not restricted to a single one of groups characterised by the analysis technique using neural networks
  • G10L 25/51 - Speech or voice analysis techniques not restricted to a single one of groups specially adapted for particular use for comparison or discrimination
  • H03G 5/16 - Automatic control

30.

METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PLAYBACK USING PRE-PROCESSED INFORMATION AND PERSONALIZATION

      
Application Number 18929188
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-10-28
First Publication Date 2025-02-13
Owner GRACENOTE, INC. (USA)
Inventor
  • Coover, Robert
  • Summers, Cameron Aubrey
  • Renner, Joseph
  • Cremer, Markus
  • Mansfield, Warren

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for playback using pre-processed profile information and personalization. Example apparatus disclosed herein include a synchronizer to, in response to receiving a media signal to be played on a playback device, access an equalization (EQ) profile corresponding to the media signal; an EQ personalization manager to generate a personalized EQ setting; and an EQ adjustment implementor to modify playback of the media signal on the playback device based on a blended equalization generated based on the EQ profile and the personalized EQ setting.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 21/442 - Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. detecting the failure of a recording device, monitoring the downstream bandwidth, the number of times a movie has been viewed or the storage space available from the internal hard disk
  • G06F 3/16 - Sound inputSound output
  • G06N 3/04 - Architecture, e.g. interconnection topology
  • G06N 3/08 - Learning methods
  • G10L 25/30 - Speech or voice analysis techniques not restricted to a single one of groups characterised by the analysis technique using neural networks
  • G10L 25/51 - Speech or voice analysis techniques not restricted to a single one of groups specially adapted for particular use for comparison or discrimination
  • H03F 3/181 - Low-frequency amplifiers, e.g. audio preamplifiers
  • H03G 5/16 - Automatic control
  • H04N 9/87 - Regeneration of colour television signals
  • H04N 21/439 - Processing of audio elementary streams
  • H04N 21/45 - Management operations performed by the client for facilitating the reception of or the interaction with the content or administrating data related to the end-user or to the client device itself, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies or resolving scheduling conflicts
  • H04R 3/04 - Circuits for transducers for correcting frequency response

31.

METHODS AND APPARATUS TO AUTOMATE RECEIVABILITY UPDATES FOR MEDIA CREDITING

      
Application Number 18921183
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-10-21
First Publication Date 2025-02-06
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Livoti, John T.
  • Woodruff, Stanley Wellington

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to automate receivability updates for media crediting. At least one non-transitory machine-readable medium comprises instructions that, when executed, cause at least one processor to at least identify a station identifier associated with at least one of a signature or a code, the at least one of the signature or the code collected at a panelist household. The instructions, when executed, cause at least one processor to further determine whether a household receivability table includes the station identifier, to determine, in response to a determination that the household receivability table does not include a station corresponding to the station identifier, whether the station is receivable at the panelist household, and to update the household receivability table, the update in response to a determination that the station corresponding to the station identifier is receivable at the panelist household.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 21/462 - Content or additional data management e.g. creating a master electronic program guide from data received from the Internet and a Head-end or controlling the complexity of a video stream by scaling the resolution or bit-rate based on the client capabilities
  • H04N 21/45 - Management operations performed by the client for facilitating the reception of or the interaction with the content or administrating data related to the end-user or to the client device itself, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies or resolving scheduling conflicts

32.

METHODS AND APPARATUS TO GENERATE REFERENCE SIGNATURES

      
Application Number 18921972
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-10-21
First Publication Date 2025-02-06
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Tapse, Sandeep
  • Borawski, Albert T.
  • Nelson, Daniel

Abstract

Methods and apparatus to generate reference signatures are disclosed. An example method includes collecting a first signature for media being presented to a plurality of households; crediting the media when the first signature matches a reference signature in a reference signature database; in response to determining that the first signature does not match a reference signature in the reference signature database and the first signature does not match an unidentified signature in an unknown signature database, storing the first signature in the unknown signature database; in response to determining that a second signature does not match the reference signature in the reference signature database and the second signature matches the unidentified signature in the unknown signature database, and increasing a count associated with the unidentified signature

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 21/442 - Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. detecting the failure of a recording device, monitoring the downstream bandwidth, the number of times a movie has been viewed or the storage space available from the internal hard disk
  • H04H 60/31 - Arrangements for monitoring the use made of the broadcast services
  • H04H 60/56 - Arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition covered by groups or

33.

METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO MONITOR A MEDIA DEVICE VIA A USB PORT

      
Application Number 18926607
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-10-25
First Publication Date 2025-02-06
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Cave, Mark
  • Volpatti, Joseph

Abstract

An audience measurement computing system for monitoring a media presentation device in a monitored environment is described and includes a network interface, at least one processor, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions executable by the processor(s). The computing system is configured to obtain, via a cable connected to an input port of the media presentation device, a voltage signal generated by the media presentation device based on an operational state of the media presentation device; compare voltage indicated by the voltage signal to a threshold; based on the comparing, generate timestamped operational state data comprising a record indicative of when the media presentation device is in an on-state; obtain audience measurement data representing one or more media signals communicated to the media presentation device; and transmit, via the network interface over a network and to a central facility, the timestamped operational state data and the audience measurement data.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06Q 30/0242 - Determining effectiveness of advertisements
  • G01R 19/165 - Indicating that current or voltage is either above or below a predetermined value or within or outside a predetermined range of values
  • G06F 13/38 - Information transfer, e.g. on bus
  • G06F 13/42 - Bus transfer protocol, e.g. handshakeSynchronisation
  • G06Q 30/0241 - Advertisements
  • H04N 21/24 - Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. monitoring of server load, available bandwidth or upstream requests
  • H04N 21/258 - Client or end-user data management, e.g. managing client capabilities, user preferences or demographics or processing of multiple end-users preferences to derive collaborative data
  • H04N 21/422 - Input-only peripherals, e.g. global positioning system [GPS]
  • H04N 21/441 - Acquiring end-user identification
  • H04N 21/442 - Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. detecting the failure of a recording device, monitoring the downstream bandwidth, the number of times a movie has been viewed or the storage space available from the internal hard disk
  • H04N 21/84 - Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors

34.

Transition Detector Neural Network

      
Application Number 18911726
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-10-10
First Publication Date 2025-01-30
Owner Gracenote, Inc. (USA)
Inventor
  • Renner, Joseph
  • Vartakavi, Aneesh
  • Coover, Robert

Abstract

In one aspect, an example method includes (i) extracting a sequence of audio features from a portion of a sequence of media content; (ii) extracting a sequence of video features from the portion of the sequence of media content; (iii) providing the sequence of audio features and the sequence of video features as an input to a transition detector neural network that is configured to classify whether or not a given input includes a transition between different content segments; (iv) obtaining from the transition detector neural network classification data corresponding to the input; (v) determining that the classification data is indicative of a transition between different content segments; and (vi) based on determining that the classification data is indicative of a transition between different content segments, outputting transition data indicating that the portion of the sequence of media content includes a transition between different content segments.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06V 10/82 - Arrangements for image or video recognition or understanding using pattern recognition or machine learning using neural networks
  • G06F 18/24 - Classification techniques
  • G06F 18/2413 - Classification techniques relating to the classification model, e.g. parametric or non-parametric approaches based on distances to training or reference patterns
  • G06N 3/049 - Temporal neural networks, e.g. delay elements, oscillating neurons or pulsed inputs
  • G06N 3/08 - Learning methods
  • G06V 10/80 - Fusion, i.e. combining data from various sources at the sensor level, preprocessing level, feature extraction level or classification level
  • G06V 20/40 - ScenesScene-specific elements in video content
  • H04N 21/234 - Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing of video streams or manipulating encoded video stream scene graphs
  • H04N 21/81 - Monomedia components thereof

35.

Method and System for Estimating the Cardinality of Information

      
Application Number 18912386
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-10-10
First Publication Date 2025-01-30
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Sheppard, Michael
  • Murphy, Edward
  • Sullivan, Jonathan

Abstract

A computer-implemented method for efficiently estimating the number of unique elements in a collection of elements comprises generating, via hash logic, hash values associated with the elements. The hash values specify bit positions within an array of bits. Hash values output from the hash logic conform to a geometric distribution such that bit positions of the array of bits corresponding to lower orders bits are more likely to be generated than bit positions corresponding to higher-order bits. Bits of the array of bits corresponding to the bit positions are set. The number of bits of the array of bits that are set is counted. Estimation logic estimates the number of unique elements of the collection of elements as a function of the number of bits of the array of bits that are set.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06F 16/2453 - Query optimisation
  • G06F 16/22 - IndexingData structures thereforStorage structures
  • G06F 16/2458 - Special types of queries, e.g. statistical queries, fuzzy queries or distributed queries
  • G06F 16/951 - IndexingWeb crawling techniques
  • G06Q 30/0242 - Determining effectiveness of advertisements

36.

METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE IMPRESSIONS USING DISTRIBUTED DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION

      
Application Number 18914528
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-10-14
First Publication Date 2025-01-30
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Mazumdar, Mainak
  • Geraghty, Kevin
  • Heffernan, Ronan
  • Kalus, Mark
  • Paparo, Ari
  • Splaine, Steven J.
  • Deliyannis, Alexandros

Abstract

Disclosed examples access first impression data representative of first impressions collected by an impression monitor system, the first impressions corresponding to the media accessed at a plurality of client devices; generate a panelist impressions composition by removing at least one duplicate impression from second impression data, the second impression data representative of second impressions logged by meters installed at the client devices, the duplicate impression corresponding to one or more accesses to the media represented in both the first impression data and the second impression data for a same audience member; determine an error value for the media based on the panelist impressions composition and a database proprietor impression composition, the database proprietor impression composition provided by a database proprietor for the media; and determine an error-corrected impression composition based on the error value and the panelist impressions composition.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06Q 30/0272 - Period of advertisement exposure
  • G06F 16/951 - IndexingWeb crawling techniques
  • G06F 21/62 - Protecting access to data via a platform, e.g. using keys or access control rules
  • G06Q 30/0201 - Market modellingMarket analysisCollecting market data
  • G06Q 30/0241 - Advertisements
  • G06Q 30/0242 - Determining effectiveness of advertisements
  • H04L 43/04 - Processing captured monitoring data, e.g. for logfile generation
  • H04L 43/0876 - Network utilisation, e.g. volume of load or congestion level
  • H04L 67/01 - Protocols
  • H04L 67/1097 - Protocols in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]
  • H04L 67/50 - Network services

37.

Methods and Apparatus to Segment Audio and Determine Audio Segment Similarities

      
Application Number 18890424
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-09-19
First Publication Date 2025-01-30
Owner Gracenote, Inc. (USA)
Inventor Mccallum, Matthew

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, and systems are disclosed to segment audio and determine audio segment similarities. An example apparatus includes at least one memory storing instructions and processor circuitry to execute instructions to at least select an anchor index beat of digital audio, identify a first segment of the digital audio based on the anchor index beat to analyze, the first segment having at least two beats and a respective center beat, concatenate time-frequency data of the at least two beats and the respective center beat to form a matrix of the first segment, generate a first deep feature based on the first segment, the first deep feature indicative of a descriptor of the digital audio, and train internal coefficients to classify the first deep feature as similar to a second deep feature based on the descriptor of the first deep feature and a descriptor of a second deep feature.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G10L 15/04 - SegmentationWord boundary detection
  • G10L 15/06 - Creation of reference templatesTraining of speech recognition systems, e.g. adaptation to the characteristics of the speaker's voice
  • G10L 15/16 - Speech classification or search using artificial neural networks

38.

Prospective Media Content Generation Using Neural Network Modeling

      
Application Number 18914851
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-10-14
First Publication Date 2025-01-30
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Bhatt, Meghana
  • Payne, Rachel

Abstract

A system for prospectively identifying media characteristics for inclusion in media content is disclosed. A neural network database including media characteristic information and feature information may associate relationships among the media characteristic information and feature information. Personal characteristic information associated with target media consumers may be used to select a subset of the neural network database. A first set of nodes, representing selected feature information, may be activated. The node interactions may be calculated to detect the activation of a second set of nodes, the second set of nodes representing media characteristic information. Generally, a node is activated when an activation value of the node exceeds a threshold value. Media characteristic information may be identified for inclusion in media content based on the second set of nodes.

IPC Classes  ?

39.

METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR VOLUME ADJUSTMENT

      
Application Number 18917165
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-10-16
First Publication Date 2025-01-30
Owner GRACENOTE, INC. (USA)
Inventor
  • Coover, Robert
  • Scott, Jeffrey
  • Cremer, Markus K.
  • Vartakavi, Aneesh

Abstract

Apparatus, systems, articles of manufacture, and methods for volume adjustment are disclosed herein. An example method includes collecting data corresponding to a volume of an audio signal as the audio signal is output through a device, when an average volume of the audio signal does not satisfy a volume threshold for a specified timespan, determining a difference between the average volume and a desired volume, and applying a gain to the audio signal to adjust the volume of the audio signal to the desired volume, the gain determined based on the difference between the average volume and the desired volume.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H03G 3/30 - Automatic control in amplifiers having semiconductor devices
  • H03F 3/183 - Low-frequency amplifiers, e.g. audio preamplifiers with semiconductor devices only
  • H03G 3/02 - Manually-operated control
  • H03G 7/00 - Volume compression or expansion in amplifiers
  • H04R 3/00 - Circuits for transducers

40.

Computing System with Motion-Detecting Device Configuration Feature

      
Application Number 18777193
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-07-18
First Publication Date 2025-01-23
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Sotosek, Igor
  • Khavasi, Girish

Abstract

An example method is for use in connection with a media device and a motion-detecting device mounted to the media device, and includes: obtaining motion data associated with the motion-detecting device; providing the obtained motion data to a trained classifier, wherein the trained classifier is configured to use at least motion data as runtime input data to generate at least device type data as runtime output data; responsive to providing the obtained motion data to the trained classifier, receiving from the trained classifier corresponding device type data generated by the trained classifier; using at least the received device type data to identify a device type of the media device; using at least the identified device type of the media device as a basis to select a set of configuration parameters for the motion-detecting device; and causing the motion-detecting device to be configured according to the selected set of configuration parameters.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06F 3/01 - Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer

41.

METHODS AND APPARATUS TO IDENTIFY STREAMING MEDIA SOURCES

      
Application Number 18902258
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-09-30
First Publication Date 2025-01-16
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Tapse, Sandeep
  • Olmsted, Jason
  • Petro, James
  • Borawski, Albert T.
  • Fuhrer, Brian

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to identify media sources are disclosed. Example apparatus disclosed herein include an exclusivity determiner, a unique asset identifier, and a signature matcher. The exclusivity determiner is to determine whether media is exclusive to a provider. The unique asset identifier is to associate a first signature of the media with the provider if the media is exclusive to the provider. The signature matcher is to identify the provider based on a second signature, the second signature matching the first signature, the second signature extracted from media presented at a media presentation location.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 21/442 - Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. detecting the failure of a recording device, monitoring the downstream bandwidth, the number of times a movie has been viewed or the storage space available from the internal hard disk
  • H04L 65/61 - Network streaming of media packets for supporting one-way streaming services, e.g. Internet radio
  • H04L 65/65 - Network streaming protocols, e.g. real-time transport protocol [RTP] or real-time control protocol [RTCP]
  • H04N 21/231 - Content storage operation, e.g. caching movies for short term storage, replicating data over plural servers or prioritizing data for deletion
  • H04N 21/422 - Input-only peripherals, e.g. global positioning system [GPS]
  • H04N 21/4782 - Web browsing
  • H04N 21/658 - Transmission by the client directed to the server
  • H04N 21/8352 - Generation of protective data, e.g. certificates involving content or source identification data, e.g. UMID [Unique Material Identifier]
  • H04N 21/84 - Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors

42.

Method and System for Estimating the Cardinality of Information

      
Application Number 18902264
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-09-30
First Publication Date 2025-01-16
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Sheppard, Michael
  • Murphy, Edward
  • Sullivan, Jonathan

Abstract

A computer-implemented method for efficiently estimating the number of unique elements in a collection of elements comprises generating, via hash logic, hash values for each element of the collection of elements. The method further comprises specifying, in a sketch-frequency table, a set of discrete statistical values associated with the hash values and, for each discrete statistical value of the set of discrete statistical values, information indicative of a frequency at which binary representations of the hash values are associated with the discrete statistical value. The cardinality of the collection of elements is estimated based on the sketch-frequency table.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06F 16/2453 - Query optimisation
  • G06F 16/22 - IndexingData structures thereforStorage structures
  • G06F 16/23 - Updating
  • G06F 16/2458 - Special types of queries, e.g. statistical queries, fuzzy queries or distributed queries
  • G06F 16/951 - IndexingWeb crawling techniques
  • G06N 7/01 - Probabilistic graphical models, e.g. probabilistic networks
  • G06Q 30/0242 - Determining effectiveness of advertisements

43.

METHODS AND APPARATUS TO IDENTIFY MEDIA BASED ON HISTORICAL DATA

      
Application Number 18904278
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-10-02
First Publication Date 2025-01-16
Owner GRACENOTE, INC. (USA)
Inventor
  • Cremer, Markus Kurt
  • Hodges, Todd

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to identify media based on historical data. An example method includes: comparing (a) a pitch shifted fingerprint, (b) a time shifted fingerprint, or (c) a resampled fingerprint to a reference fingerprint; in response to a match between any of (a) the pitch shifted fingerprint, (b) the time shifted fingerprint, or (c) the resampled fingerprint and the reference fingerprint, generating indications of (a) a pitch shift value, (b) a time shift value, or (c) a resample ratio that caused the match; in response to collecting broadcast media for a threshold period of time, processing the one or more indications; and in response to a request for a recommendation for information associated with a query, transmitting the recommendation including one or more frequencies of occurrence of (a) the pitch shift value, (b) the time shift value, or (c) the resample ratio.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06F 16/683 - Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually using metadata automatically derived from the content
  • G06F 16/632 - Query formulation
  • G06F 16/65 - ClusteringClassification
  • G06F 16/68 - Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
  • G06F 18/22 - Matching criteria, e.g. proximity measures

44.

Media Presentation Device with Voice Command Feature

      
Application Number 18896854
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-09-25
First Publication Date 2025-01-16
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Burbank, John R.
  • Thielen, Kurt Roman

Abstract

A media presentation device determines a voice command associated with media content presented by the media presentation device. The media presentation device then listens for and detects utterance of the determined voice command during presentation of the media content, and the media presentation device responds to the detected utterance by performing an action that facilitates user purchase of the good or service associated with the media content segment.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 21/478 - Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification or shopping application
  • G10L 15/26 - Speech to text systems
  • H04N 21/2389 - Multiplex stream processing, e.g. multiplex stream encrypting
  • H04N 21/658 - Transmission by the client directed to the server

45.

METHODS, APPARATUS, AND ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE TO DETERMINE UNIQUE AUDIENCE SIZE VIA CLUSTERED DATA

      
Application Number 18904574
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-10-02
First Publication Date 2025-01-16
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Shah, Dipti Umesh
  • Sheppard, Michael R.
  • Liu, Jing
  • Oyeneye, Olabode O.
  • Murphy, Edward
  • Sullivan, Jonathan
  • Zipoy, Matthew

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to determine unique audience size via clustered data. An example apparatus includes memory, machine readable instructions, and processor circuitry to at least one of execute or instantiate the machine readable instructions. The example processor circuitry is to form a first matrix identifying matching and non-matching instances of first values of respective demographics of an audience of media and second values of the respective demographics. Also, the processor circuitry is to normalize the first matrix to generate an account sharing adjustment matrix. Additionally, the processor circuitry is to apply the account sharing adjustment matrix to a vector of one or more counts of impressions of the media to correct for one or more members of the audience that share a user account registered with a database proprietor, the one or more counts of the impressions corresponding to the respective demographics.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06Q 30/0201 - Market modellingMarket analysisCollecting market data
  • H04N 21/25 - Management operations performed by the server for facilitating the content distribution or administrating data related to end-users or client devices, e.g. end-user or client device authentication or learning user preferences for recommending movies
  • H04N 21/258 - Client or end-user data management, e.g. managing client capabilities, user preferences or demographics or processing of multiple end-users preferences to derive collaborative data

46.

Use of Audio Classification as Basis to Control Audio Identification

      
Application Number 18348202
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-07-06
First Publication Date 2025-01-09
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Rafii, Zafar
  • Coover, Robert
  • Gish, David
  • Topchy, Alexander
  • Nielsen, Christen V.
  • Gupta, Sadhana
  • Khavasi, Girish
  • Stavropoulos, John Steven

Abstract

A method includes receiving, into a microphone of a portable computing device, audio from a surrounding environment of the portable computing device. The method also includes classifying, by the portable computing device, the received audio as containing media content or as containing no media content. Classifying the received audio as containing media content or as containing no media content comprises determining whether the audio defines content emitted from a media player in the surrounding environment of the portable computing device. The method further includes, based on the classifying, controlling by the portable computing device whether to engage in an audio-identification process for determining an identity of the media content.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 21/439 - Processing of audio elementary streams
  • H04N 21/422 - Input-only peripherals, e.g. global positioning system [GPS]
  • H04N 21/8358 - Generation of protective data, e.g. certificates involving watermark

47.

Methods and apparatus for automatic TV on/off detection

      
Application Number 18895919
Grant Number 12250367
Status In Force
Filing Date 2024-09-25
First Publication Date 2025-01-09
Grant Date 2025-03-11
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Liss, Michael Jordan
  • Horner, Richard Lee
  • Conklin, Charles Clinton
  • Vitt, James Joseph

Abstract

Methods and apparatus are disclosed to determine a power state of a device. An example method includes determining respective counts for a plurality of measurements during a calibration period, the measurements indicative of an amount of power drawn by the device, determining a first threshold and a second threshold based on at least one of the counts, the first threshold determined using most frequently logged measurement values, the most frequently logged measurement values based on counts performed after expiration of the calibration period, comparing a measurement to the first threshold and to the second threshold, and outputting a positive indication when the measurement is within an acceptable difference range, the acceptable difference range based on the amount of power drawn by the device.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 5/64 - Constructional details of receivers, e.g. cabinets or dust covers
  • G01R 35/00 - Testing or calibrating of apparatus covered by the other groups of this subclass
  • H04H 60/32 - Arrangements for monitoring conditions of receiving stations, e.g. malfunction or breakdown of receiving stations
  • H04N 17/00 - Diagnosis, testing or measuring for television systems or their details
  • H04N 21/442 - Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. detecting the failure of a recording device, monitoring the downstream bandwidth, the number of times a movie has been viewed or the storage space available from the internal hard disk

48.

METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETECT AND RECTIFY FALSE SET TOP BOX TUNING DATA

      
Application Number 18891998
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-09-20
First Publication Date 2025-01-09
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Shankar, Balachander
  • Sullivan, Jonathan
  • Poppie, Molly
  • Coughlin, John Charles
  • Ha, Neung Soo
  • Chimenti, Paul
  • Worth Olson, Rachel
  • Mowrer, Samantha M.
  • Kurzynski, David J.
  • Friedman, Joshua Ivan
  • Hasinski, Adam E.

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to rectify false set top box tuning data. Disclosed examples methods include identifying, by executing an instruction with a processor, in the return path data, first tuning data corresponding to a first group of set top boxes, the first group of set top boxes classified as associated with machine events, determining, by executing an instruction with a processor, a ratio between first tuning events in the return path data and second tuning events in the return path data, the first tuning events attributed to the first group of the set top boxes, the second tuning events attributed to a second group of the set top boxes classified at not associated with machine events, and in response to the ratio satisfying a threshold during a time interval, removing second tuning data associated with the time interval from the first tuning data.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 21/442 - Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. detecting the failure of a recording device, monitoring the downstream bandwidth, the number of times a movie has been viewed or the storage space available from the internal hard disk
  • H04N 21/25 - Management operations performed by the server for facilitating the content distribution or administrating data related to end-users or client devices, e.g. end-user or client device authentication or learning user preferences for recommending movies
  • H04N 21/258 - Client or end-user data management, e.g. managing client capabilities, user preferences or demographics or processing of multiple end-users preferences to derive collaborative data
  • H04N 21/658 - Transmission by the client directed to the server
  • H04N 21/84 - Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors

49.

METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE MEDIA EXPOSURE OF A PANELIST

      
Application Number 18893256
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-09-23
First Publication Date 2025-01-09
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Davis, Jeremey M.
  • Mannion, Nicholas

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to determine media exposure of a panelist are disclosed. An example apparatus include memory; computer readable instructions; and processor circuitry to execute the computer readable instructions to: determine an anonymized identifier from media monitoring data corresponding to a personal people meter of a panelist; filter anonymized census data from a plurality of media devices based on the anonymized identifier; when second media data different than first media data is included in the media monitoring data during a same time duration, tag the time duration as corresponding to multiple media exposure; and credit exposure to media for the panelist based on the tag.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 21/24 - Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. monitoring of server load, available bandwidth or upstream requests
  • G06Q 30/0201 - Market modellingMarket analysisCollecting market data
  • H04N 21/8355 - Generation of protective data, e.g. certificates involving usage data, e.g. number of copies or viewings allowed
  • H04N 21/845 - Structuring of content, e.g. decomposing content into time segments

50.

Tracking Media-Delivery-Device in Relation to Media Presentation and Exposure

      
Application Number 18338136
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-06-20
First Publication Date 2024-12-26
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Lerch, Ronny
  • Berrada, Meryem
  • Lekah, Alan
  • Zoldos, John
  • Anderson, James

Abstract

A system and method for attributing media-exposure to a particular media-delivery device, such as a media player, at a panelist site. An example system includes a first meter configured to detect media presentation by a media-presentation device at the panelist site, and a second meter configured to detect media transmission at the panelist site to the media-delivery device at the panelist site. Further, the example system includes program instructions stored in non-transitory data storage and executable by at least one processor to carry out operations including (i) correlating the detected media presentation at the panelist site with the detected media transmission at the panelist site to the media-delivery device at the panelist site and (ii) based on the correlating, associating the panelist media-exposure with the media-delivery device, such as by generating record indicating the association. This association may then be used as a basis to enhance audience ratings.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 21/45 - Management operations performed by the client for facilitating the reception of or the interaction with the content or administrating data related to the end-user or to the client device itself, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies or resolving scheduling conflicts
  • H04N 21/658 - Transmission by the client directed to the server

51.

AUDIO IDENTIFICATION BASED ON DATA STRUCTURE

      
Application Number 18824127
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-09-04
First Publication Date 2024-12-26
Owner Gracenote, Inc. (USA)
Inventor
  • Rafii, Zafar
  • Seetharaman, Prem

Abstract

Example systems and methods are audio identification based on data structure are disclosed. An example apparatus includes memory, and one or more processors to execute instructions to execute a constant Q transform on query time slices of query audio, binarize the constant Q transformed query time slices, execute a two-dimensional Fourier transform on query time windows within the binarized and constant Q transformed query time slices to generate two-dimensional Fourier transforms of the query time windows, sequentially order the two-dimensional Fourier transforms in a query data structure, and identify the query audio as a cover rendition of reference audio based on a comparison between the query data structure and a reference data structure associated with the reference audio.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06F 16/68 - Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
  • G06F 16/61 - IndexingData structures thereforStorage structures
  • G06F 17/14 - Fourier, Walsh or analogous domain transformations
  • G10L 25/27 - Speech or voice analysis techniques not restricted to a single one of groups characterised by the analysis technique
  • G10L 25/51 - Speech or voice analysis techniques not restricted to a single one of groups specially adapted for particular use for comparison or discrimination

52.

METHODS AND APPARATUS TO GENERATE AUDIENCE METRICS FOR CONNECTED TELEVISION

      
Application Number 18826661
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-09-06
First Publication Date 2024-12-26
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Atai, Ameneh
  • Bik, Matan
  • Vakil, Utsav Utpal
  • Sausman, Christopher Newell
  • Shun, Jason
  • Markov, Efrat Marom

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to generate audience metrics for connected television. An example system includes at least one memory, programmable circuitry, and instructions to cause the programmable circuitry to obtain media access data corresponding to connected television media and a user identifier corresponding to a media access device, generate, using a machine learning model, probability values for corresponding audience demographics in a household composition corresponding to the user identifier, the probability values indicative of likelihoods that corresponding ones of the audience demographics are accessing the connected television media, determine a person-level characteristic based on the probability values of the audience demographics, the person-level characteristic corresponding to an audience member of the connected television media, and assign the media access data to the person-level characteristic.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 21/258 - Client or end-user data management, e.g. managing client capabilities, user preferences or demographics or processing of multiple end-users preferences to derive collaborative data
  • H04N 21/24 - Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. monitoring of server load, available bandwidth or upstream requests
  • H04N 21/25 - Management operations performed by the server for facilitating the content distribution or administrating data related to end-users or client devices, e.g. end-user or client device authentication or learning user preferences for recommending movies

53.

APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR USER PRESENCE DETECTION FOR AUDIENCE MONITORING

      
Application Number 18829727
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-09-10
First Publication Date 2024-12-26
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Woodruff, Stanley Wellington
  • Livoti, John T.

Abstract

Apparatus, systems, and method for user presence detection for audience monitoring are disclosed. Example apparatus disclosed herein are to detect movement of a user relative to an area based on one or more signals output by one or more motion detection sensors, the area associated with a media presentation device. Disclosed example apparatus are also to generate a request for verification of user presence in the viewing area in response to detection of the user movement. Disclosed example apparatus are further to correlate a user input responsive to the request with media presented via the media presentation device.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 21/442 - Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. detecting the failure of a recording device, monitoring the downstream bandwidth, the number of times a movie has been viewed or the storage space available from the internal hard disk
  • G10L 17/22 - Interactive proceduresMan-machine interfaces
  • H04N 21/422 - Input-only peripherals, e.g. global positioning system [GPS]
  • H04N 21/4223 - Cameras

54.

SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO IMPROVE TIMESTAMP TRANSITION RESOLUTION

      
Application Number 18760706
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-07-01
First Publication Date 2024-12-26
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Frett, Ken Joseph
  • Kuznetsov, Vladimir
  • Gish, David
  • Gupta, Sadhana

Abstract

Example methods and apparatus to improve timestamp transition resolution of watermarks are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus is to determine an initial resolution for timestamp transitions based on a first number of time units between first ones of watermarks detected in media, and determine an updated resolution for the timestamp transitions based on a predicted timestamp transition window and a second number of time units between second ones of the watermarks detected in the media, the second ones of the watermarks to be subsequent to the first ones of the watermarks in the media, the predicted timestamp transition window associated with the initial resolution for timestamp transitions, the updated resolution for the timestamp transitions corresponding to a third number of time units, the third number of time units less than the second number of time units.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G10L 19/018 - Audio watermarking, i.e. embedding inaudible data in the audio signal
  • G10L 25/45 - Speech or voice analysis techniques not restricted to a single one of groups characterised by the type of analysis window
  • H04N 19/467 - Embedding additional information in the video signal during the compression process characterised by the embedded information being invisible, e.g. watermarking
  • H04N 21/43 - Processing of content or additional data, e.g. demultiplexing additional data from a digital video streamElementary client operations, e.g. monitoring of home network or synchronizing decoder's clockClient middleware
  • H04N 21/8358 - Generation of protective data, e.g. certificates involving watermark
  • H04N 21/8547 - Content authoring involving timestamps for synchronizing content

55.

Methods and Apparatus for Efficient Media Indexing

      
Application Number 18824141
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-09-04
First Publication Date 2024-12-26
Owner Gracenote, Inc. (USA)
Inventor
  • Wilkinson, Matthew James
  • Scott, Jeffrey
  • Coover, Robert
  • Dimitriou, Konstantinos Antonios

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for efficient media indexing. An example method disclosed herein includes means for initiating a list of hash seeds, the list of hash seeds including at least a first hash seed value and a second hash seed value among other hash seed values, means for generating to generate a first bucket distribution based on the first hash seed value and a first hash function and generate a second bucket distribution based on the second hash seed value used in combination with the first hash seed value, means for determining to determine a first entropy value of the first bucket distribution, wherein data associated with the first bucket distribution is stored in a first hash table and determine a second entropy value of the second bucket distribution.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06F 16/22 - IndexingData structures thereforStorage structures
  • G06F 7/58 - Random or pseudo-random number generators
  • G06F 16/41 - IndexingData structures thereforStorage structures

56.

Use of Doppler Shift as a Basis to Determine Area of Focus

      
Application Number 18825761
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-09-05
First Publication Date 2024-12-26
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Livoti, John Thomas
  • Woodruff, Stanley Wellington

Abstract

A method system for use of Doppler shift as a basis to detect user focus, such as to detect that a user was attracted to audio media and/or to an associated object. A portable processing device carried by the user receives audio media emitted from an audio source at a fixed location, the audio media having periodic watermarking encoded at a baseline frequency. The portable processing device detects a change in frequency of the periodic watermarking over time, such as the frequency progressing from at least being higher than the baseline frequency to being the baseline frequency for at least a predefined threshold period of time. Based on the detected change in frequency of the periodic watermarking over time, the portable device then provides a report indicating that the user was attracted to the audio media and/or to an object (e.g., a commercial object) collocated with the audio source.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 21/442 - Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. detecting the failure of a recording device, monitoring the downstream bandwidth, the number of times a movie has been viewed or the storage space available from the internal hard disk
  • G01S 15/58 - Velocity or trajectory determination systemsSense-of-movement determination systems
  • G10L 19/018 - Audio watermarking, i.e. embedding inaudible data in the audio signal
  • H04N 21/439 - Processing of audio elementary streams

57.

METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR AFFILIATE INTERRUPT DETECTION

      
Application Number 18826532
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-09-06
First Publication Date 2024-12-26
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Davis, Jeremey M.
  • Wright, David H.
  • Topchy, Alexander
  • Ponraj, Cherisse
  • Curtis, Chris
  • Chazen, Jonathan
  • Cremer, Markus Kurt
  • Gupta, Sharmishtha
  • Scott, Jeffrey

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for affiliate interrupt detection. An example method disclosed herein includes determining whether a first time period of a first audio signal corresponds to a first affiliate interrupt period based on whether (1) a first type of watermark is detected in the first time period of the first audio signal, and (2) a second type of watermark is detected in the first audio signal outside the first time period but not in the first time period of the first audio signal, and determining whether the first time period of the first audio signal corresponds to the first affiliate interrupt period when watermarks are not detected in the first time period of the first audio signal based on comparison of first signatures with second signatures representing a corresponding first time period of a reference audio signal.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 21/2389 - Multiplex stream processing, e.g. multiplex stream encrypting
  • H04N 21/233 - Processing of audio elementary streams
  • H04N 21/234 - Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing of video streams or manipulating encoded video stream scene graphs
  • H04N 21/262 - Content or additional data distribution scheduling, e.g. sending additional data at off-peak times, updating software modules, calculating the carousel transmission frequency, delaying a video stream transmission or generating play-lists
  • H04N 21/81 - Monomedia components thereof
  • H04N 21/8358 - Generation of protective data, e.g. certificates involving watermark
  • H04N 21/845 - Structuring of content, e.g. decomposing content into time segments

58.

SIGNATURE RETRIEVAL AND MATCHING FOR MEDIA MONITORING

      
Application Number 18827233
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-09-06
First Publication Date 2024-12-26
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Nelson, Daniel
  • Srinivasan, Venugopal
  • Ramaswamy, Arun
  • Ranganathan, Raghuram
  • Mcarthur, Kenneth William

Abstract

Example apparatus disclosed herein are to obtain a first hash key, a second hash key and a third hash key representative of first reference media in response to a first query of a first table, the second hash key associated with a second time preceding a first time associated with the first hash key, the third hash key associated with a third time following the first time associated with the first hash key. Disclosed example apparatus are also to prequalify the first hash key as a candidate for subsequent signature processing associated with a first site signature in response to a determination that the second hash key corresponds to a second site signature preceding the first site signature in time and that the third hash key corresponds to a third site signature following the first site signature in time.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 21/442 - Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. detecting the failure of a recording device, monitoring the downstream bandwidth, the number of times a movie has been viewed or the storage space available from the internal hard disk
  • G06V 20/40 - ScenesScene-specific elements in video content
  • H04H 60/31 - Arrangements for monitoring the use made of the broadcast services
  • H04H 60/40 - Arrangements for identifying or recognising characteristics with a direct linkage to broadcast information or to broadcast space-time, e.g. for identifying broadcast stations or for identifying users for identifying broadcast time or space for identifying broadcast time
  • H04H 60/56 - Arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition covered by groups or
  • H04N 21/234 - Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing of video streams or manipulating encoded video stream scene graphs
  • H04N 21/258 - Client or end-user data management, e.g. managing client capabilities, user preferences or demographics or processing of multiple end-users preferences to derive collaborative data
  • H04N 21/44 - Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing a video clip retrieved from local storage with an incoming video stream or rendering scenes according to encoded video stream scene graphs
  • H04N 21/4408 - Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing a video clip retrieved from local storage with an incoming video stream or rendering scenes according to encoded video stream scene graphs involving video stream encryption, e.g. re-encrypting a decrypted video stream for redistribution in a home network
  • H04N 21/8352 - Generation of protective data, e.g. certificates involving content or source identification data, e.g. UMID [Unique Material Identifier]

59.

METHODS AND APPARATUS TO IDENTIFY MAIN PAGE VIEWS

      
Application Number 18830892
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-09-11
First Publication Date 2024-12-26
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor Viswambharan, Sanjeev Kumar

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to identify main page views. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, machine readable instructions, and processor circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine readable instructions to: access a log of requests from a proxy, the log of requests including main page requests and embedded page requests, the log of requests including timestamps corresponding to the main page requests and the embedded page requests, identify, based on consecutive ones of the timestamps occurring within a time interval, at least one of the main page requests associated with the time interval, and credit the at least one of the main page requests as a main page view.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04L 67/568 - Storing data temporarily at an intermediate stage, e.g. caching
  • H04L 12/46 - Interconnection of networks
  • H04L 67/564 - Enhancement of application control based on intercepted application data

60.

METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE RATINGS INFORMATION FOR ONLINE MEDIA PRESENTATIONS

      
Application Number 18815253
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-08-26
First Publication Date 2024-12-19
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Splaine, Steven J.
  • Gaynor, Kevin K.
  • Goli, Narasimha Reddy

Abstract

Disclosed examples include logging impression records corresponding to pingback messages received in network communications from a client device, ones of the pingback messages corresponding to portions of media presented at the client device; determining a duration impression for the media based on the impression records; dividing the duration impression based on media types corresponding to the portions of the media presented at the client device; and determining demographic characteristics for ones of the media types in the portions of the media.

IPC Classes  ?

61.

METHODS AND APPARATUS TO ACCURATELY CREDIT STREAMING SESSIONS

      
Application Number 18816324
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-08-27
First Publication Date 2024-12-19
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Tapse, Sandeep
  • Petro, James
  • Rao, Shruthi
  • Deshmukh, Spoorthi Ramakanth
  • Ranganathan, Raghuram
  • Wright, David Howell

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to accurately credit streaming sessions are disclosed. A meter device records streaming session information. Cluster creation circuitry trains a model by grouping information from multiple streaming sessions into clusters, wherein all streaming sessions within a given cluster have matching media and streaming sources. Model executor circuitry assigns incoming streaming session information to a cluster or to noise. Cluster creation circuitry edits the model by creating new clusters out of information from multiple streaming sessions with similar attributes that were originally labeled as noise. By only crediting streaming session information assigned to a cluster, the disclosed system avoids crediting illogical streaming session information, such as the crediting of media to a streaming source that does not offer said media.

IPC Classes  ?

62.

METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE SYNTHETIC RESPONDENT LEVEL DATA USING CONSTRAINED MARKOV CHAINS

      
Application Number 18823375
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-09-03
First Publication Date 2024-12-19
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Sheppard, Michael
  • Sullivan, Jonathan
  • Morgan, Michael D.
  • Shankar, Balachander
  • Murphy, Edward
  • Downing, Frank

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to generate synthetic respondent level data. Example apparatus disclosed herein include means for generating a synthetic panel corresponding to a duration of time, the means for generating the synthetic panel to: generate a transition matrix corresponding to a first sub-duration of the duration of time and a second sub-duration of the duration of time; generate, based on the transition matrix, a plurality of synthetic panelists and associated viewing data; remove first ones of the synthetic panelists associated with one or more weights that do not satisfy a threshold to generate the synthetic panel corresponding to the duration of time, the synthetic panel representative of audiences of media presented by a plurality of media devices during the duration of time; and generate synthetic respondent level data based on the viewing data associated with remaining second ones of the synthetic panelists.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 21/442 - Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. detecting the failure of a recording device, monitoring the downstream bandwidth, the number of times a movie has been viewed or the storage space available from the internal hard disk
  • H04H 60/31 - Arrangements for monitoring the use made of the broadcast services
  • H04N 21/258 - Client or end-user data management, e.g. managing client capabilities, user preferences or demographics or processing of multiple end-users preferences to derive collaborative data
  • H04N 21/262 - Content or additional data distribution scheduling, e.g. sending additional data at off-peak times, updating software modules, calculating the carousel transmission frequency, delaying a video stream transmission or generating play-lists
  • H04N 21/458 - Scheduling content for creating a personalised stream, e.g. by combining a locally stored advertisement with an incoming streamUpdating operations, e.g. for OS modules
  • H04N 21/81 - Monomedia components thereof
  • H04N 21/845 - Structuring of content, e.g. decomposing content into time segments

63.

METHODS AND APPARATUS TO IDENTIFY MEDIA FOR AHEAD OF TIME WATERMARK ENCODING

      
Application Number 18748734
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-06-20
First Publication Date 2024-12-19
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor Karazoun, Khaldun

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to identify media for ahead of time watermark encoding. An example apparatus includes a media interface to determine a characteristic of media, the characteristic corresponding to a broadcast time of the media; and a controller to: determine an identifier corresponding to the media; transmit a query including the characteristic and the identifier prior to the media being broadcast, the query to request an indication whether the identifier is unique; and responsive to the indication that the identifier is unique, cause a watermark to be encoded in the media using the identifier prior to the media being broadcast.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 21/262 - Content or additional data distribution scheduling, e.g. sending additional data at off-peak times, updating software modules, calculating the carousel transmission frequency, delaying a video stream transmission or generating play-lists
  • H04N 21/8358 - Generation of protective data, e.g. certificates involving watermark

64.

METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MULTIMODAL AUDIENCE DETECTION AND IDENTIFICATION

      
Application Number 18820006
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-08-29
First Publication Date 2024-12-19
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Usaj, Marko
  • Barbis, Andrej
  • Arh, Joze
  • Stavropoulos, John

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for multimodal audience detection and identification. An example system disclosed herein includes at least one memory, instructions in the apparatus, and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to: select a portion of a set of signal strength values associated with advertising packets from a device associated with a user, the advertising packets captured by a multi-axis receiver on a plurality of different signal polarizations; calculate a first representative signal strength value based on the selected portion of signal strength values; and determine a presence of the user based on whether the first representative signal strength value satisfies a threshold.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G01S 13/04 - Systems determining presence of a target
  • G01S 7/41 - Details of systems according to groups , , of systems according to group using analysis of echo signal for target characterisationTarget signatureTarget cross-section
  • G01S 11/06 - Systems for determining distance or velocity not using reflection or reradiation using radio waves using intensity measurements
  • H04B 17/318 - Received signal strength
  • H04N 21/41 - Structure of clientStructure of client peripherals
  • H04W 4/80 - Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
  • H04W 64/00 - Locating users or terminals for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management

65.

Music Service with Motion Video

      
Application Number 18821897
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-08-30
First Publication Date 2024-12-19
Owner Gracenote, Inc. (USA)
Inventor Cremer, Markus K.

Abstract

Techniques of providing motion video content along with audio content are disclosed. In some example embodiments, a computer-implemented system is configured to perform operations comprising: receiving primary audio content; determining that at least one reference audio content satisfies a predetermined similarity threshold based on a comparison of the primary audio content with the at least one reference audio content; for each one of the at least one reference audio content, identifying motion video content based on the motion video content being stored in association with the one of the at least one reference audio content and not stored in association with the primary audio content; and causing the identified motion video content to be displayed on a device concurrently with a presentation of the primary audio content on the device.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 21/43 - Processing of content or additional data, e.g. demultiplexing additional data from a digital video streamElementary client operations, e.g. monitoring of home network or synchronizing decoder's clockClient middleware
  • H04N 21/439 - Processing of audio elementary streams
  • H04N 21/45 - Management operations performed by the client for facilitating the reception of or the interaction with the content or administrating data related to the end-user or to the client device itself, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies or resolving scheduling conflicts

66.

METHODS AND APPARATUS TO IDENTIFY MEDIA APPLICATION SESSIONS

      
Application Number 18660656
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-05-10
First Publication Date 2024-12-12
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor Karazoun, Khaldun

Abstract

Methods and apparatus to identify media application sessions are disclosed. An example apparatus includes an audio interface to monitor an audio output of a media presentation device during a viewing session, a tone analyzer to identify one or more dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) tones presented by the audio output of the media presentation device, a session identification determiner to determine a session identification value associated with the viewing session based on the one or more identified DTMF tones, and a session report generator to associate a panelist identifier with the viewing session, and generate a session report based on the session identification value associated with the DTMF tones and the panelist identifier associated with the viewing session.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 21/258 - Client or end-user data management, e.g. managing client capabilities, user preferences or demographics or processing of multiple end-users preferences to derive collaborative data
  • H04L 67/50 - Network services

67.

METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SUPPLEMENTING PARTIALLY READABLE AND/OR INACCURATE CODES IN MEDIA

      
Application Number 18743279
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-06-14
First Publication Date 2024-12-12
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Gish, David
  • Davis, Jeremey
  • Lynch, Wendell D.
  • Nielsen, Christen V.

Abstract

Methods and apparatus are disclosed for supplementing partially readable and/or inaccurate codes. An example apparatus includes a watermark analyzer to select a first watermark and a second watermark decoded from media; a comparator to compare a first decoded timestamp of the first watermark to a second decoded timestamp of the second watermark; and a timestamp adjuster to adjust the second decoded timestamp based on the first decoded timestamp of the second watermark when at least a threshold number of symbols of the second decoded timestamp match corresponding symbols of the first decoded timestamp.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G10L 19/018 - Audio watermarking, i.e. embedding inaudible data in the audio signal
  • G10L 19/02 - Speech or audio signal analysis-synthesis techniques for redundancy reduction, e.g. in vocodersCoding or decoding of speech or audio signals, using source filter models or psychoacoustic analysis using spectral analysis, e.g. transform vocoders or subband vocoders
  • G10L 25/51 - Speech or voice analysis techniques not restricted to a single one of groups specially adapted for particular use for comparison or discrimination

68.

METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR LOADING AND ROLL-OFF OF REFERENCE MEDIA ASSETS

      
Application Number 18809508
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-08-20
First Publication Date 2024-12-12
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Tapse, Sandeep
  • Nelson, Daniel
  • Ranganathan, Raghuram

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for loading and roll-off of reference media assets. Example apparatus disclosed herein are to determine whether a first condition to prune a reference media asset is satisfied, and in response to a determination that the first condition is satisfied, determine whether a second condition to prune the reference media asset is satisfied. Disclosed example apparatus are also to, in response to a determination that the second condition is satisfied: segment the reference media asset into a plurality of segments based on a length of the reference media asset, prune a first one of the segments, and retain a second one of the segments in a database to compare with meter data to credit media exposure associated with the reference media asset.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 21/442 - Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. detecting the failure of a recording device, monitoring the downstream bandwidth, the number of times a movie has been viewed or the storage space available from the internal hard disk

69.

METHODS AND APPARATUS TO CORRELATE A DEMOGRAPHIC SEGMENT WITH A FIXED DEVICE

      
Application Number 18811437
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-08-21
First Publication Date 2024-12-12
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Abello, Jean-Pierre
  • Ramaswamy, Arun
  • Besehanic, Jan

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to correlate a demographic segment with a fixed device are disclosed. An example method includes accessing a record indicating a public Internet Protocol (IP) address used by a fixed device. A monitoring data record received from a mobile device is accessed. A demographic segment of a user of the mobile device is determined. The mobile device is associated with the fixed device when an IP address of the mobile device from the monitoring data record matches the public IP address used by the fixed device. The demographic segment of the user of the mobile device is associated with the fixed device based on the association of the fixed device and the mobile device.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04L 67/50 - Network services
  • H04L 67/02 - Protocols based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
  • H04L 67/52 - Network services specially adapted for the location of the user terminal

70.

SYSTEMS, APPARATUS, AND RELATED METHODS TO ESTIMATE AUDIENCE EXPOSURE BASED ON ENGAGEMENT LEVEL

      
Application Number 18789331
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-07-30
First Publication Date 2024-12-12
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Finc, Matjaz
  • Sotosek, Igor

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, and systems are disclosed for estimating audience exposure based on engagement level. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, machine readable instructions, and processor circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine readable instructions to identify a user activity associated with a user during exposure of the user to media based on an output from at least one of a user device, a remote control device, an image sensor, or a motion sensor, classify the user activity as an attention-based activity or a distraction-based activity, assign a distraction factor or an attention factor to the user activity based on the classification, and determine an attention level for the user based on the distraction factor or the attention factor.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 21/466 - Learning process for intelligent management, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies
  • H04N 21/442 - Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. detecting the failure of a recording device, monitoring the downstream bandwidth, the number of times a movie has been viewed or the storage space available from the internal hard disk

71.

METHODS AND APPARATUS TO IDENTIFY MEDIA BASED ON WATERMARKS ACROSS DIFFERENT AUDIO STREAMS AND/OR DIFFERENT WATERMARKING TECHNIQUES

      
Application Number 18807271
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-08-16
First Publication Date 2024-12-12
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Fahnestock, Justin
  • Heffernan, Ronan
  • Amir, Muhammad
  • Kercher, Wes
  • Barraclough, Scott
  • Kistenmacher, John

Abstract

Example apparatus disclosed herein are to detect a first watermark embedded in an audio stream associated with media, the first watermark embedded and detected based on a first watermarking technique; and detect a second watermark embedded in the audio stream, the second watermark embedded and detected based on a second watermarking technique. Disclosed example apparatus are also to assign the first watermark to a first monitoring track and to a second monitoring track, the first monitoring track limited to watermarks embedded in the audio stream based on the first watermarking technique, the second monitoring track limited to watermarks embedded in the audio stream based on any of the first or second watermarking techniques; group the first and second watermarks to form a media detection event when the second watermark is assigned to the second monitoring track; and cause transmission of the media detection event to a data collection facility.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 21/439 - Processing of audio elementary streams
  • G10L 19/018 - Audio watermarking, i.e. embedding inaudible data in the audio signal
  • H04N 21/44 - Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing a video clip retrieved from local storage with an incoming video stream or rendering scenes according to encoded video stream scene graphs
  • H04N 21/442 - Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. detecting the failure of a recording device, monitoring the downstream bandwidth, the number of times a movie has been viewed or the storage space available from the internal hard disk
  • H04N 21/83 - Generation or processing of protective or descriptive data associated with contentContent structuring

72.

Use of Steganographically-Encoded Data as Basis to Disambiguate Fingerprint-Based Channel-Multi-Match

      
Application Number 18810917
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-08-21
First Publication Date 2024-12-12
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Merchant, Shashank C.
  • Ashbacher, Andrew L.

Abstract

The disclosure provides for use of steganographically-encoded data as a basis to disambiguated a fingerprint-based channel-multimatch. A fingerprint-matching server or other entity could detect a channel-multi-match scenario by determining that query fingerprints representing media content being rendered by a content presentation device match reference fingerprints respectively representing multiple channels. In view of that detected channel-multi-match scenario, the content presentation device could then provide channel-identification information that the content presentation device extracts from a watermark that is steganographically encoded in the media content of the channel that the content presentation device is rendering, for use of the extracted channel-identification information to determine which channel the content presentation device is rendering. Identifying the channel being rendered could then facilitate channel-specific action, such as then detecting a content-modification opportunity on the identified channel and preparing and enabling the content presentation device to carry out an associated content modification.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 21/2389 - Multiplex stream processing, e.g. multiplex stream encrypting
  • H04N 21/234 - Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing of video streams or manipulating encoded video stream scene graphs
  • H04N 21/435 - Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data or reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
  • H04N 21/81 - Monomedia components thereof

73.

METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE A DURATION OF MEDIA PRESENTATION BASED ON TUNING SESSION DURATION

      
Application Number 18813372
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-08-23
First Publication Date 2024-12-12
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Sheppard, Michael
  • Sullivan, Jonathan
  • Lipa, Peter
  • Terrazas, Alejandro

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to determine a duration of media presentation based on tuning session duration. Example apparatus a receiver to obtain a first tuning session duration indicative of an amount of time between channel changes of a first media presentation device at a first media presentation location, a presentation session estimator to select a model from storage, the model selected based on a match of the first tuning session duration and a second tuning session duration, the model including a relation between the second tuning session duration and a first presentation session duration of media presented on a second media presentation device at a second media presentation location, and estimate a second presentation session duration of media presented within the first tuning session duration based on the model.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 21/25 - Management operations performed by the server for facilitating the content distribution or administrating data related to end-users or client devices, e.g. end-user or client device authentication or learning user preferences for recommending movies
  • H04N 21/442 - Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. detecting the failure of a recording device, monitoring the downstream bandwidth, the number of times a movie has been viewed or the storage space available from the internal hard disk
  • H04N 21/466 - Learning process for intelligent management, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies

74.

Communication of Payload Data Through Altered Sequence of Metadata Defining Audio-Rendering Directives

      
Application Number 18330436
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-06-07
First Publication Date 2024-12-12
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Topchy, Alexander
  • Mathew, Justin Dan
  • Davis, Jeremey M.
  • Kuznetsov, Vladimir

Abstract

To facilitate communicating payload data to a destination, a computing system varies audio-rendering-directive metadata over time in a manner that represents the payload data and outputs the varied audio-rendering-directive metadata over time for communication along with an audio stream to the destination to facilitate rendering of the audio stream at the destination in accordance with the varied audio-rendering-directive metadata over time. The rendering of the audio stream at the destination conveys the payload data by being in accordance with the varied audio-rendering-directive metadata over time that represents the payload data. Thus, an audio meter operating at the destination could detect associated variation in the rendered audio stream and map that detected variation in the rendered audio stream to the payload data, thereby receiving the payload data. Varying the audio-rendering-directive metadata over time could involve varying audio-loudness specifications over time and/or varying spatial-audio specifications over time, among other possibilities.

IPC Classes  ?

75.

Communication of Payload Data Through Altered Sequence of Metadata Defining Audio-Rendering Directives

      
Application Number 18330554
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-06-07
First Publication Date 2024-12-12
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Topchy, Alexander
  • Mathew, Justin Dan
  • Davis, Jeremey M.
  • Kuznetsov, Vladimir

Abstract

To facilitate communicating payload data to a destination, a computing system varies audio-rendering-directive metadata over time in a manner that represents the payload data and outputs the varied audio-rendering-directive metadata over time for communication along with an audio stream to the destination to facilitate rendering of the audio stream at the destination in accordance with the varied audio-rendering-directive metadata over time. The rendering of the audio stream at the destination conveys the payload data by being in accordance with the varied audio-rendering-directive metadata over time that represents the payload data. Thus, an audio meter operating at the destination could detect associated variation in the rendered audio stream and map that detected variation in the rendered audio stream to the payload data, thereby receiving the payload data. Varying the audio-rendering-directive metadata over time could involve varying audio-loudness specifications over time and/or varying spatial-audio specifications over time, among other possibilities.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04S 7/00 - Indicating arrangementsControl arrangements, e.g. balance control
  • H04R 5/04 - Circuit arrangements

76.

Use of Symbol Strength and Verified Watermark Detection as Basis to Improve Media-Exposure Detection

      
Application Number 18329234
Status Pending
Filing Date 2023-06-05
First Publication Date 2024-12-05
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Gish, David
  • Davis, Jeremey M.

Abstract

To extract an identifier value from a watermark in media content, a system initially determines the identifier by determining symbol values based on an evaluation of tone strength of each of multiple symbol time segments of the watermark. Further, the system assigns a quality level to the watermark, based on a count of errors in the determined symbol values in view of one or more watermark-structure rules. Still further, if the quality level is threshold low, then the system engages in an error correction process that takes into account, for each symbol time segment whose symbol value may be erroneous, whether that symbol time segment has a threshold strong tone combination that matches the tone combination of a corresponding symbol time segment in a verified watermark. And if the error correction process is successful, the system replaces the determined identifier value with the identifier value of the verified watermark.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G10L 19/018 - Audio watermarking, i.e. embedding inaudible data in the audio signal

77.

Methods and apparatus to perform media device asset qualification

      
Application Number 18593715
Grant Number 12238354
Status In Force
Filing Date 2024-03-01
First Publication Date 2024-12-05
Grant Date 2025-02-25
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Nelson, Daniel
  • Petro, James
  • Borawski, Albert T.

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to perform media device asset qualification are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, and at least one processor to execute instructions to at least identify a first set of candidate media device assets for disqualification, the candidate media device assets including A) a signature and B) a media identifier that identifies media, generate a hash table using a second set of the candidate media device assets, determine one or more counts of matches between C) a first signature and a first media identifier of a first candidate media device asset of the second set and D) respective signatures and media identifiers of multiple ones of the second set using the hash table, the multiple ones of the second set not including the first candidate media device asset, and load the first signature into a reference database as a reference signature.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 21/24 - Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. monitoring of server load, available bandwidth or upstream requests
  • G06F 16/22 - IndexingData structures thereforStorage structures
  • H04N 21/254 - Management at additional data server, e.g. shopping server or rights management server
  • H04N 21/258 - Client or end-user data management, e.g. managing client capabilities, user preferences or demographics or processing of multiple end-users preferences to derive collaborative data
  • H04N 21/41 - Structure of clientStructure of client peripherals
  • H04N 21/439 - Processing of audio elementary streams
  • H04N 21/44 - Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing a video clip retrieved from local storage with an incoming video stream or rendering scenes according to encoded video stream scene graphs
  • H04N 21/442 - Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. detecting the failure of a recording device, monitoring the downstream bandwidth, the number of times a movie has been viewed or the storage space available from the internal hard disk
  • H04N 21/6543 - Transmission by server directed to the client for forcing some client operations, e.g. recording
  • H04N 21/81 - Monomedia components thereof

78.

SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS TO IDENTIFY MEDIA DEVICES

      
Application Number 18648868
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-04-29
First Publication Date 2024-12-05
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor Besehanic, Jan

Abstract

Systems, methods, and apparatus to identify media devices are disclosed. An example network communications monitor includes network interface circuitry, computer readable instructions, and processor circuitry. The processor circuitry is to execute the computer readable instructions to detect, via the network interface circuitry, multiple network communications transmitted on a home network within the household, access panelist data that associates a panelist of the household with a panelist device of the panelist, determine, based on the panelist data, that one or more of the multiple network communications are associated with the panelist device, and cause storage of data identifying the one or more network communications in association with the panelist.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04L 67/50 - Network services
  • H04H 60/32 - Arrangements for monitoring conditions of receiving stations, e.g. malfunction or breakdown of receiving stations
  • H04L 61/103 - Mapping addresses of different types across network layers, e.g. resolution of network layer into physical layer addresses or address resolution protocol [ARP]
  • H04L 61/2514 - Translation of Internet protocol [IP] addresses between local and global IP addresses
  • H04L 61/5014 - Internet protocol [IP] addresses using dynamic host configuration protocol [DHCP] or bootstrap protocol [BOOTP]

79.

METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION WITH AN AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT DEVICE

      
Application Number 18799214
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-08-09
First Publication Date 2024-12-05
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Bodzo, Stephen Jess
  • Panger, Marko
  • Cooper, Timothy Scott

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture for communication with an audience metering device are disclosed. An example apparatus includes one or more non-transitory computer readable media, instructions in the apparatus, and one or more processors to execute the instructions. The example one or more processors are to segment a message to be transmitted to a configuration device into a first message segment and a second message segment, store the first message segment in a characteristic memory, and transmit a first advertisement to the configuration device when the first message segment is stored in the characteristic memory. Additionally, the example one or more processors are to after the first message segment has been gathered by the configuration device, store the second message segment in the characteristic memory and transmit a second advertisement to the configuration device when the second message segment is stored in the characteristic memory.

IPC Classes  ?

80.

Methods and Apparatus to Estimate Audience Sizes of Media Using Deduplication Based on Vector of Counts Sketch Data

      
Application Number 18799357
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-08-09
First Publication Date 2024-12-05
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Sheppard, Michael
  • Sullivan, Jonathan L.
  • Dailey, Jake Ryan
  • Forthomme, Damien
  • Brinson, Jessica D.
  • Poppie, Molly
  • Summers, Christie Nicole
  • Morovati Lopez, Diane

Abstract

Methods and apparatus to estimate audience sizes using deduplication based on vector of counts sketch data are disclosed. A system includes hardware circuitry to instantiate: coefficient analyzer circuitry to determine coefficient values of a polynomial based on (i) variances in values in a first vector of counts and a second vector of counts, (ii) a first cardinality of the first vector of counts, and (iii) a second cardinality of the second vector of counts; and overlap analyzer circuitry to: determine a real root of the polynomial; and report generator circuitry to estimate a deduplicated audience size based on (i) the estimate of the quantity of the second subscribers that are duplicates of the first subscribers and (ii) the first and second cardinalities. The system includes communication circuitry to transmit a network communication to a third party entity, the second network communication including a report based on the deduplicated audience size.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06F 16/215 - Improving data qualityData cleansing, e.g. de-duplication, removing invalid entries or correcting typographical errors
  • G06F 16/2455 - Query execution
  • H04L 67/50 - Network services
  • H04N 21/442 - Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. detecting the failure of a recording device, monitoring the downstream bandwidth, the number of times a movie has been viewed or the storage space available from the internal hard disk

81.

METHODS AND APPARATUS OF MEDIA DEVICE DETECTION FOR MINIMALLY INVASIVE MEDIA METERS

      
Application Number 18800414
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-08-12
First Publication Date 2024-12-05
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Topchy, Alexander
  • Srinivasan, Venugopal

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for media crediting and, more particularly, methods and apparatus of media device detection for media meters. An example computing system disclosed herein to detect media devices presenting media comprises a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, having stored thereon program instructions that, upon execution by the processor, cause performance of a set of operations comprising generating a cluster of media locations based on media identifying information received from a presentation of media at a streaming media device and identifying the streaming media device based on the media devices available at the media locations in the cluster of media locations and an identity of a media device determined to be available in a majority of media locations in the cluster of media locations.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 21/442 - Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. detecting the failure of a recording device, monitoring the downstream bandwidth, the number of times a movie has been viewed or the storage space available from the internal hard disk
  • H04H 60/00 - Arrangements for broadcast applications with a direct linkage to broadcast information or to broadcast space-timeBroadcast-related systems
  • H04H 60/29 - Arrangements for monitoring broadcast services or broadcast-related services
  • H04H 60/54 - Arrangements for identifying or recognising characteristics with a direct linkage to broadcast information or to broadcast space-time, e.g. for identifying broadcast stations or for identifying users for identifying locations where broadcast information is generated
  • H04N 21/2547 - Third party billing, e.g. billing of advertiser
  • H04N 21/258 - Client or end-user data management, e.g. managing client capabilities, user preferences or demographics or processing of multiple end-users preferences to derive collaborative data
  • H04N 21/435 - Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data or reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
  • H04N 21/658 - Transmission by the client directed to the server
  • H04N 21/8358 - Generation of protective data, e.g. certificates involving watermark
  • H04N 21/84 - Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors

82.

Use of Steganographically-Encoded Time Information as Basis to Establish a Time Offset, to Facilitate Taking Content-Related Action

      
Application Number 18806372
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-08-15
First Publication Date 2024-12-05
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Ropke, Benjamin J.
  • Stavropoulos, John S.
  • Merchant, Shashank C.

Abstract

A method and system for using steganographically-encoded time information as a basis to control when a client carries out a content-related action. The client processes for presentation one or more linear media streams, each defining a respective time sequence of frames of media content, and at least one of the streams being steganographically encoded with at least one watermark at a respective time-point within the linear media stream, the watermark encoding a timestamp of the respective time-point within the linear media stream according to a server clock. The client extracts the timestamp from the watermark and computes a time offset based on a difference between the extracted timestamp and a current time according to a client clock. And the client uses the computed time offset as a basis to determine when to carry out a content-related action in a given one of the one or more linear media streams.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 21/234 - Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing of video streams or manipulating encoded video stream scene graphs
  • G06T 1/00 - General purpose image data processing
  • H04N 21/2389 - Multiplex stream processing, e.g. multiplex stream encrypting
  • H04N 21/44 - Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing a video clip retrieved from local storage with an incoming video stream or rendering scenes according to encoded video stream scene graphs
  • H04N 21/81 - Monomedia components thereof
  • H04N 21/8358 - Generation of protective data, e.g. certificates involving watermark
  • H04N 21/845 - Structuring of content, e.g. decomposing content into time segments
  • H04N 21/8547 - Content authoring involving timestamps for synchronizing content

83.

METHODS AND APPARATUS TO ASSOCIATE GEOGRAPHIC LOCATIONS WITH USER DEVICES

      
Application Number 18807025
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-08-16
First Publication Date 2024-12-05
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Splaine, Steven J.
  • Ramaswamy, Arun

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to associate geographic locations with user devices. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, instructions in the apparatus, and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to extract source identifying information from a beacon transmitted from a user device to an audience measurement entity, classify a network that connects the user device to the audience measurement entity based on the source identifying information, query a location service of a provider of a mobile network to retrieve a location associated with the user device, store the location in association with media identifying information, and generate a user profile associating the user device with the retrieved location.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04W 4/02 - Services making use of location information
  • G06Q 30/0242 - Determining effectiveness of advertisements

84.

METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MONITOR MEDIA PRESENTATIONS

      
Application Number 18678715
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-05-30
First Publication Date 2024-12-05
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor Zimmerman, Mark C.

Abstract

Methods and apparatus to monitor media presentations are disclosed. Example methods disclosed herein include presenting information via a display of a media device, the information indicating that monitor software in the media device can be enabled, the monitor software to monitor media presented by the media device, the monitor software to be disabled by default. Disclosed example methods also include detecting a first user input that is to authorize the monitor software in the media device to be enabled, and in response to detection of the first user input: (i) enabling the monitor software in the media device to generate and report at least one of video fingerprints, audio fingerprints, video watermarks or audio watermarks representative of media presented by the media device, and (ii) transmitting, via a network interface, a notification to a remote monitoring entity to indicate that the monitor software in the media device has been enabled.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 21/466 - Learning process for intelligent management, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies
  • G06Q 30/02 - MarketingPrice estimation or determinationFundraising
  • G06Q 30/0207 - Discounts or incentives, e.g. coupons or rebates
  • G06Q 30/0241 - Advertisements
  • H04N 21/258 - Client or end-user data management, e.g. managing client capabilities, user preferences or demographics or processing of multiple end-users preferences to derive collaborative data
  • H04N 21/442 - Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. detecting the failure of a recording device, monitoring the downstream bandwidth, the number of times a movie has been viewed or the storage space available from the internal hard disk
  • H04N 21/658 - Transmission by the client directed to the server

85.

METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MONITOR ONLINE ACTIVITY

      
Application Number 18807566
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-08-16
First Publication Date 2024-12-05
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor Monighetti, Brian T.

Abstract

Methods and apparatus are disclosed to monitory online activity. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, instructions, and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to generate a first database to store first uniform resource locators collected from first client devices, the first client devices associated with panelists, generate a second database to store second uniform resource locators collected from second client devices, one or more of the second client devices associated with one or more unidentified users, associate at least one of the second uniform resource locators as online activity of a first panelist of the panelists based on at least a portion of one of the first uniform resource locators matching at least a portion of the one of the second uniform resource locators, and store an association of the online activity and an identifier, the identifier to identify the first panelist.

IPC Classes  ?

86.

SYNTHETIC TOTAL AUDIENCE RATINGS

      
Application Number 18648362
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-04-27
First Publication Date 2024-11-28
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Frisardi, Chiara
  • Meraviglia, Claudio
  • Pedretti, Stefano
  • Filatrella, Fabio
  • Rindori, Davide
  • Ghiotto, Stefano
  • Maretti, Valerio
  • Ria, Gianmarco
  • Abrate, Marco
  • Scantamburlo, Fabio
  • Costante, Gianluca
  • Papandrea, Michela
  • Leidi, Tiziano
  • Quattrini, Andrea
  • Nasi, Davide

Abstract

Example methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to determine synthetic total audience ratings are disclosed. Disclosed example apparatus are to access census data including census viewing statements associated with media content presented by census devices, access panel data including panelist viewing statements associated with media content presented by panel devices, the panel data including weights to represent numbers of individuals to be represented by corresponding panelists, determine scores representing similarities between ones of a first group of census devices determined to having matching panel devices in the panel data and ones of a second group of census devices determined to be unmatched in the panel data, and assign the census devices to the panel devices based on the scores and the weights.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 21/25 - Management operations performed by the server for facilitating the content distribution or administrating data related to end-users or client devices, e.g. end-user or client device authentication or learning user preferences for recommending movies
  • H04N 21/442 - Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. detecting the failure of a recording device, monitoring the downstream bandwidth, the number of times a movie has been viewed or the storage space available from the internal hard disk
  • H04N 21/81 - Monomedia components thereof

87.

AUTOMATED COVER SONG IDENTIFICATION

      
Application Number 18790730
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-07-31
First Publication Date 2024-11-28
Owner GRACENOTE, INC. (USA)
Inventor
  • Cremer, Markus K.
  • Rafii, Zafar
  • Coover, Robert
  • Seetharaman, Prem

Abstract

Example systems and methods for automated cover song identification are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, machine-readable instructions, and one or more processors to execute the machine-readable instructions to at least execute a constant Q transform on time slices of first audio data to output constant Q transformed time slices, binarize the constant Q transformed time slices to output binarized and constant Q transformed time slices, execute a two-dimensional Fourier transform on time windows within the binarized and constant Q transformed time slices to output two-dimensional Fourier transforms of the time windows, generate a reference data structure based on a sequential order of the two-dimensional Fourier transforms, store the reference data structure in a database, and identify a query data structure associated with query audio data as a cover rendition of the audio data based on a comparison of the query and reference data structures.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06F 16/683 - Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually using metadata automatically derived from the content
  • G06Q 50/18 - Legal services

88.

METHODS AND APPARATUS TO ESTIMATE POPULATION REACH FROM MARGINAL RATINGS

      
Application Number 18670876
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-05-22
First Publication Date 2024-11-28
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Sheppard, Michael
  • Sullivan, Jonathan
  • Murphy, Edward
  • Morgan, Michael D.
  • Daemen, Ludo

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to estimate population reach from marginal ratings. An example apparatus includes means for iteratively converging on an output estimate of a reach of media for a total population audience and means for outputting the estimate of the reach for the total population audience.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 21/442 - Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. detecting the failure of a recording device, monitoring the downstream bandwidth, the number of times a movie has been viewed or the storage space available from the internal hard disk
  • G06Q 30/0201 - Market modellingMarket analysisCollecting market data
  • H04N 21/475 - End-user interface for inputting end-user data, e.g. PIN [Personal Identification Number] or preference data

89.

AUDIO CONTENT RECOGNITION METHOD AND SYSTEM

      
Application Number 18790749
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-07-31
First Publication Date 2024-11-28
Owner Gracenote, Inc. (USA)
Inventor
  • Berrian, Alexander
  • Hodges, Todd J.
  • Coover, Robert
  • Wilkinson, Matthew James
  • Rafii, Zafar

Abstract

A method implemented by a computing system comprises generating, by the computing system, a fingerprint comprising a plurality of bin samples associated with audio content. Each bin sample is specified within a frame of the fingerprint and is associated with one of a plurality of non-overlapping frequency ranges and a value indicative of a magnitude of energy associated with a corresponding frequency range. The computing system removes, from the fingerprint, a plurality of bin samples associated with a frequency sweep in the audio content.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G10L 25/54 - Speech or voice analysis techniques not restricted to a single one of groups specially adapted for particular use for comparison or discrimination for retrieval
  • G10L 19/018 - Audio watermarking, i.e. embedding inaudible data in the audio signal
  • G10L 19/028 - Noise substitution, e.g. substituting non-tonal spectral components by noisy source
  • G10L 25/18 - Speech or voice analysis techniques not restricted to a single one of groups characterised by the type of extracted parameters the extracted parameters being spectral information of each sub-band
  • G10L 25/27 - Speech or voice analysis techniques not restricted to a single one of groups characterised by the analysis technique
  • G10L 25/72 - Speech or voice analysis techniques not restricted to a single one of groups specially adapted for particular use for transmitting results of analysis

90.

AUDIENCE MONITORING SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS

      
Application Number 18794352
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-08-05
First Publication Date 2024-11-28
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Livoti, John T.
  • Woodruff, Stanley Wellington

Abstract

Audience monitoring systems and related methods are described herein. An example audience monitoring system includes a beacon to be disposed proximate a media presentation device. The beacon is to transmit a ping signal. The system also includes a portable metering device to be carried by a person. The portable metering device includes a microphone to receive an audio signal and a processor to determine a distance value indicative of a distance between the portable metering device and the beacon based on the ping signal.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04Q 9/00 - Arrangements in telecontrol or telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station, in which substation desired apparatus is selected for applying a control signal thereto or for obtaining measured values therefrom
  • H04R 1/08 - MouthpiecesAttachments therefor
  • H04W 4/02 - Services making use of location information

91.

METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING ENGAGEMENT DURING MEDIA EXPOSURE

      
Application Number 18794925
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-08-05
First Publication Date 2024-11-28
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor Topchy, Alexander

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for measuring engagement during media exposure. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, machine readable instructions, and processor circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine readable instructions to identify media presented via a media device in a media presentation environment, identify ambient audio detected in the media presentation environment, determine whether the ambient audio is distractive to presentation of the media in the media presentation environment, and adjust a media exposure report based on a determination that the ambient audio is distractive.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 21/442 - Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. detecting the failure of a recording device, monitoring the downstream bandwidth, the number of times a movie has been viewed or the storage space available from the internal hard disk
  • H04N 21/466 - Learning process for intelligent management, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies

92.

Methods and apparatus to fingerprint an audio signal via exponential normalization

      
Application Number 18674678
Grant Number 12235896
Status In Force
Filing Date 2024-05-24
First Publication Date 2024-11-21
Grant Date 2025-02-25
Owner Gracenote, Inc. (USA)
Inventor
  • Berrian, Alexander
  • Wilkinson, Matthew James
  • Coover, Robert

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to fingerprint an audio signal via exponential normalization. An example apparatus includes an audio segmenter to divide an audio signal into a plurality of audio segments including a first audio segment and a second audio segment, the first audio segment including a first time-frequency bin, the second audio segment including a second time-frequency bin, a mean calculator to determine a first exponential mean value associated with the first time frequency bin based on a first magnitude of the audio signal associated with the first time frequency bin and a second exponential mean value associated with the second time frequency bin based on a second magnitude of the audio signal associated with the second time frequency bin and the first exponential mean value. The example apparatus further includes a bin normalizer to normalize the first time-frequency bin based on the second exponential mean value and a fingerprint generator to generate a fingerprint of the audio signal based on the normalized first time-frequency bins.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G10L 25/51 - Speech or voice analysis techniques not restricted to a single one of groups specially adapted for particular use for comparison or discrimination
  • G06F 16/683 - Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually using metadata automatically derived from the content
  • G10L 25/21 - Speech or voice analysis techniques not restricted to a single one of groups characterised by the type of extracted parameters the extracted parameters being power information

93.

POWER EFFICIENT DETECTION OF WATERMARKS IN MEDIA SIGNALS

      
Application Number 18787193
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-07-29
First Publication Date 2024-11-21
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Gish, David
  • Gupta, Sadhana
  • Kuznetsov, Vladimir
  • Lynch, Wendell D.
  • Neuhauser, Alan R.

Abstract

Example apparatus disclosed herein include a watermark detector to detect watermarks in a media signal. Disclosed example apparatus also include a controller to operate the watermark detector to (1) detect a first watermark in the media signal, and (2) cycle between sleep intervals and active intervals based on a repetition rate of the watermarks in the media signal to perform a detection operation for a second watermark at a second location in the media signal relative to a first location of the first watermark in the media signal. In some examples, the controller is to search a buffer of prior detected watermark symbols to detect a third watermark at a third location prior to the second location in the media signal in response to the second watermark not being detected at the second location in the media signal.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06T 1/00 - General purpose image data processing
  • H04N 19/42 - Methods or arrangements for coding, decoding, compressing or decompressing digital video signals characterised by implementation details or hardware specially adapted for video compression or decompression, e.g. dedicated software implementation
  • H04N 19/467 - Embedding additional information in the video signal during the compression process characterised by the embedded information being invisible, e.g. watermarking
  • H04N 21/439 - Processing of audio elementary streams
  • H04N 21/443 - OS processes, e.g. booting an STB, implementing a Java virtual machine in an STB or power management in an STB
  • H04N 21/8358 - Generation of protective data, e.g. certificates involving watermark

94.

METHODS AND APPARATUS TO CREDIT MEDIA SEGMENTS SHARED AMONG MULTIPLE MEDIA ASSETS

      
Application Number 18784915
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-07-26
First Publication Date 2024-11-21
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Wright, David H.
  • Nelson, Daniel
  • Ranganathan, Raghuram
  • Mcculley, Derrick

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to credit media segments shared among multiple media assets are disclosed. Example methods disclosed herein include comparing a sequence of monitored media signatures with a library of reference signatures to determine a signature match, the monitored media signatures representative of a monitored media presentation. Disclosed example methods also include determining duration and offset of the signature match, the offset to represent a position of the signature match relative to a start of a reference media asset associated with the signature match. Disclosed example methods further include crediting a segment of the monitored media presentation represented by the signature match to an identifier of a class of media assets including the reference media asset in response to a determination that (i) the duration of the signature match does not exceed a first threshold and (ii) the offset does not exceed a second threshold.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 21/442 - Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. detecting the failure of a recording device, monitoring the downstream bandwidth, the number of times a movie has been viewed or the storage space available from the internal hard disk
  • H04N 21/235 - Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
  • H04N 21/44 - Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing a video clip retrieved from local storage with an incoming video stream or rendering scenes according to encoded video stream scene graphs

95.

Display device on/off detection methods and apparatus

      
Application Number 18785639
Grant Number 12166963
Status In Force
Filing Date 2024-07-26
First Publication Date 2024-11-21
Grant Date 2024-12-10
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Nielsen, Christen V.
  • Nelson, Dan

Abstract

Display device ON/OFF detection methods and apparatus are disclosed. Example display activity detectors disclosed herein are to extract regions from respective ones of captured video frames, the regions corresponding to a depiction of a display of a monitored media device Disclosed example display activity detectors are also to compute a distance metric that is to represent an amount a first one of the regions of a first one of the captured video frames differs from a corresponding second one of the regions of a second one of the captured video frames. Disclosed example display activity detectors are further to compare the distance metric to a threshold to determine whether the monitored media device is ON or OFF.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 17/04 - Diagnosis, testing or measuring for television systems or their details for receivers
  • H04H 60/32 - Arrangements for monitoring conditions of receiving stations, e.g. malfunction or breakdown of receiving stations
  • H04N 21/439 - Processing of audio elementary streams

96.

METHODS AND APPARATUS TO GENERATE AUDIENCE METRICS USING THIRD-PARTY PRIVACY-PROTECTED CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS

      
Application Number 18782315
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-07-24
First Publication Date 2024-11-14
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Vanlandeghem, Matthew
  • Shao, Lianghua
  • Brinson, Jessica
  • Sanghavi, Sagar
  • Sullivan, Jonathan
  • Kline, Billie J.
  • Sivarajan, Mala
  • Nagaraja, Shruthi Koundinya
  • Thomas, Logan
  • Kumar, Arushi

Abstract

An example system disclosed herein includes programmable circuitry to identify donor adjustment factors and recipient adjustment factors used for correction of media impressions logged by a database proprietor, the donor adjustment factors including first donor adjustment factors associated with a first geographic region and second donor adjustment factors associated with a second geographic region, determine a first reduced donor factor set corresponding to ones of the first donor adjustment factors that satisfy a threshold, determine a second reduced donor factor set corresponding to ones of the second donor adjustment factors that satisfy the threshold, and generate imputation factors based on an aggregation of retained ones of the donor adjustment factors, the retained ones of the donor adjustment factors selected based on the first reduced donor factor set and the second reduced donor factor set, the imputation factors to reduce error in the correction.

IPC Classes  ?

  • G06Q 30/0201 - Market modellingMarket analysisCollecting market data
  • G06F 16/215 - Improving data qualityData cleansing, e.g. de-duplication, removing invalid entries or correcting typographical errors
  • G06F 16/23 - Updating
  • G06F 16/2457 - Query processing with adaptation to user needs
  • G06F 16/28 - Databases characterised by their database models, e.g. relational or object models
  • G06F 16/9536 - Search customisation based on social or collaborative filtering
  • G06F 21/62 - Protecting access to data via a platform, e.g. using keys or access control rules
  • G06N 5/04 - Inference or reasoning models
  • G06N 20/00 - Machine learning
  • G06Q 30/0202 - Market predictions or forecasting for commercial activities
  • G06Q 30/0204 - Market segmentation
  • G06Q 30/0242 - Determining effectiveness of advertisements
  • H04L 67/303 - Terminal profiles
  • H04L 67/306 - User profiles
  • H04L 67/50 - Network services
  • H04L 67/53 - Network services using third party service providers

97.

METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE MEDIA IMPRESSIONS USING DISTRIBUTED DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION

      
Application Number 18732104
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-06-03
First Publication Date 2024-11-14
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Kalus, Mark
  • Paparo, Ari
  • Geraghty, Kevin

Abstract

Examples to determine media impressions using distributed demographic information are disclosed. An example system includes programmable circuitry to log, at a first Internet domain, a first record for a first website visit by a first client device to a website at a second Internet domain, the first record based on a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) request, the first record to include a timestamp, a uniform resource locator (URL), and a user identifier, the timestamp to represent a time of the first website visit, the URL corresponding to the website at the second Internet domain, and weight impression data in a report, the impression data associated with the first record and with second records, the second records corresponding to second website visits to the website via second client devices, the weighting of the impression data based on demographic distributions of audience members corresponding to the first and second records.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04L 67/50 - Network services
  • G06F 16/955 - Retrieval from the web using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
  • G06Q 30/02 - MarketingPrice estimation or determinationFundraising
  • G06Q 30/0201 - Market modellingMarket analysisCollecting market data
  • G06Q 30/0251 - Targeted advertisements
  • H04L 43/04 - Processing captured monitoring data, e.g. for logfile generation
  • H04L 67/01 - Protocols
  • H04L 67/02 - Protocols based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
  • H04L 67/146 - Markers for unambiguous identification of a particular session, e.g. session cookie or URL-encoding
  • H04L 67/306 - User profiles

98.

METHODS, APPARATUS, AND ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE TO DETERMINE WHETHER AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT METERS ARE CO-LOCATED

      
Application Number 18605816
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-03-15
First Publication Date 2024-11-07
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Topchy, Alexander
  • Lerch, Ronny
  • Stavropoulos, John
  • Gish, David

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to determine whether audience measurement meters are co-located. An example apparatus is to, based on a difference between a first sampling time of a first entry of a first log and a second sampling time of a corresponding entry of a second log satisfying a first threshold, determine at least one matching instance of at least one first device identifier of the first entry and at least one second device identifier of the corresponding entry. Additionally, the example apparatus is to populate a variable with the at least one matching instance. The example apparatus is also to, based on a metric satisfying a second threshold, cause transmission of an alert indicating that a first meter and a second meter were co-located during generation of the first log and the second log, the metric based on the at least one matching instance.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 21/466 - Learning process for intelligent management, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies
  • H04N 21/45 - Management operations performed by the client for facilitating the reception of or the interaction with the content or administrating data related to the end-user or to the client device itself, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies or resolving scheduling conflicts

99.

METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT

      
Application Number 18775039
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-07-17
First Publication Date 2024-11-07
Owner The Nielsen Company (US), LLC (USA)
Inventor
  • Vitt, James Joseph
  • Cooper, Timothy Scott
  • Turnbow, Douglas Brent
  • Mcclellan, Troy E.

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed. An example system includes: interface circuitry; programmable circuitry; and instructions to program the programmable circuitry to: obtain audio of a media presentation; obtain ambient noise in an area associated with the media presentation; determine an intensity of a difference between the audio and the ambient noise; and determine an engagement level of an audience of the media presentation based on a duration the intensity satisfies a threshold value.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 21/442 - Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. detecting the failure of a recording device, monitoring the downstream bandwidth, the number of times a movie has been viewed or the storage space available from the internal hard disk
  • H04N 21/466 - Learning process for intelligent management, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies

100.

METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR AUDIO EQUALIZATION

      
Application Number 18776970
Status Pending
Filing Date 2024-07-18
First Publication Date 2024-11-07
Owner GRACENOTE, INC. (USA)
Inventor
  • Renner, Joseph
  • Coover, Robert
  • Cremer, Markus
  • Summers, Cameron Aubrey

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for audio equalization. Example instructions disclosed herein cause one or more processors to at least: detect an irregularity in a frequency representation of an audio signal in response to a change in volume between a set of frequency values exceeding a threshold; and adjust a volume at a first frequency value of the set of frequency values to reduce the irregularity.

IPC Classes  ?

  • H04N 21/442 - Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. detecting the failure of a recording device, monitoring the downstream bandwidth, the number of times a movie has been viewed or the storage space available from the internal hard disk
  • G06F 3/16 - Sound inputSound output
  • G06N 3/04 - Architecture, e.g. interconnection topology
  • G06N 3/08 - Learning methods
  • G10L 25/30 - Speech or voice analysis techniques not restricted to a single one of groups characterised by the analysis technique using neural networks
  • G10L 25/51 - Speech or voice analysis techniques not restricted to a single one of groups specially adapted for particular use for comparison or discrimination
  • H03F 3/181 - Low-frequency amplifiers, e.g. audio preamplifiers
  • H03G 5/16 - Automatic control
  • H04N 9/87 - Regeneration of colour television signals
  • H04N 21/439 - Processing of audio elementary streams
  • H04N 21/45 - Management operations performed by the client for facilitating the reception of or the interaction with the content or administrating data related to the end-user or to the client device itself, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies or resolving scheduling conflicts
  • H04R 3/04 - Circuits for transducers for correcting frequency response
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