METHODS AND APPARATUS TO REDIRECT INTERNET CLIENTS FOR MEDIA MONITORING

    公开(公告)号:US20230139274A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-05-04

    申请号:US18149011

    申请日:2022-12-30

    IPC分类号: H04W40/34 H04W76/15 H04L67/50

    摘要: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to redirect internet clients for media monitoring. An example apparatus disclosed herein includes memory, instructions, and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to detect connections between client devices and a first WI-FI connection point, the client devices connected to the first WI-FI connection point via a second WI-FI connection point, when a first number of the connections is less than a second number of possible connections to the first WI-FI connection point, generate an additional connection to the first WI-FI connection point, the additional connection corresponding to at least one of the client devices, and route the client devices to the first WI-FI connection point via the first number of connections and the additional connection.

    METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE SOURCES OF MEDIA PRESENTATIONS

    公开(公告)号:US20220121699A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-04-21

    申请号:US17565969

    申请日:2021-12-30

    摘要: 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.

    METHODS AND APPARATUS TO LOCATE UNKNOWN MEDIA DEVICES

    公开(公告)号:US20220030077A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-01-27

    申请号:US17498730

    申请日:2021-10-11

    IPC分类号: H04L29/08 H04L29/06

    摘要: An apparatus and method to automatically determine the location of unknown media devices is disclosed. An example apparatus includes a media device detector to detect an unknown media device identified in monitoring data collected by an audience measurement device at a location determined to have an “on” status, a media transmission detector to detect a media transmission associated with a device address and an association storer to store an association of the device address, the unknown media device and the location. A probability determiner determines a probability that the unknown media device is located at the location.

    METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE VIRTUAL WIFI DATA RATE

    公开(公告)号:US20210345167A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-04

    申请号:US16864101

    申请日:2020-04-30

    摘要: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to determine virtual WiFi data rate. An example disclosed herein includes a control frame receiver to capture control frames from a user device. The example disclosed herein further includes a bitrate calculator to calculate a bitrate for each control frame by dividing a bitmap of a control frame by an amount of time between the control frame and a previously captured control frame. The example disclosed herein further includes an interval timer to control a length of time that the control frames are captured before calculating the virtual bandwidth. The example disclosed herein further includes a virtual bandwidth calculator to calculate the virtual bandwidth after the length of time, the virtual bandwidth calculated by dividing an average bitrate from the control frames by the length of time.

    MEASUREMENT OF INTERNET MEDIA CONSUMPTION

    公开(公告)号:US20210344763A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-04

    申请号:US16864118

    申请日:2020-04-30

    IPC分类号: H04L29/08 H04L29/12

    摘要: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to measure media consumption. An apparatus includes a controller to trigger execution of a request to obtain media from an Internet site, and a reference signature generator to identify a set of domain names generated during the execution of the request, and generate a reference signature based on (a) the set of domain names and (b) one or more of a location of the request, a time of the request, or a characteristic of a device used to execute the request.

    METHODS AND APPARATUS TO IDENTIFY MEDIA PRESENTATIONS BY ANALYZING NETWORK TRAFFIC

    公开(公告)号:US20210029414A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-01-28

    申请号:US17068533

    申请日:2020-10-12

    发明人: Joseph Kerkes

    摘要: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed herein to identify media presentation by analyzing network traffic. Example instructions cause a machine to generate a traffic profile to reduce a computational burden of identifying streaming media being presented on a media presentation device, the traffic profile including first network traffic data indicative of the streaming media; obtain the traffic profile and second network traffic data corresponding to the streaming media; and generate, in response to a score for the second network traffic data meeting a threshold of similarity, a network traffic analysis report identifying the streaming media being presented on the media presentation device.

    METHODS AND APPARATUS TO EXCLUDE NETWORK COMMUNICATION TRAFFIC FROM MEDIA MONITORING RECORDS

    公开(公告)号:US20200092187A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-03-19

    申请号:US16132061

    申请日:2018-09-14

    发明人: Joseph Kerkes

    摘要: Methods and apparatus to exclude network communication traffic from media monitoring records are disclosed herein. An example apparatus includes a first communication radio to collect records of network traffic on a communication network and a second communication radio to transmit the records identifying a portion of the network traffic to an audience measurement entity. The example apparatus further includes a MAC address determiner to determine the MAC address of the second communication radio and a record filter to remove the network communication associated with the MAC address from the records.

    METHODS AND APPARATUS TO LOCATE UNKNOWN MEDIA DEVICES

    公开(公告)号:US20180331915A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-15

    申请号:US15595613

    申请日:2017-05-15

    IPC分类号: H04L12/24 H04L12/18

    摘要: An apparatus and method to automatically determine the location of unknown media devices is disclosed. An example apparatus includes a media device detector to detect an unknown media device identified in monitoring data collected by an audience measurement device at a location determined to have an “on” status, a media transmission detector to detect a media transmission associated with a device address and an association storer to store an association of the device address, the unknown media device and the location. A probability determiner determines a probability that the unknown media device is located at the location.