公开(公告)号：WO2020252181A1

公开(公告)日：2020-12-17

申请号：PCT/US2020/037262

申请日：2020-06-11

Applicant: THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC

Inventor： WATTS, David

IPC: H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/439

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to identify user presence to a meter. An example apparatus includes a user input receiver to obtain presence information from a panelist via a prompt displayed by a user interface of the apparatus, the presence information indicating that the panelist is present at the meter separate from the apparatus, a configuration controller to package the presence information and insert an indication in the packaged presence information, the indication indicating the packaged information is to be sent to the meter via a remote server, and a wireless transceiver to transmit the packaged presence information to the remote server.

公开(公告)号：WO2020247922A1

公开(公告)日：2020-12-10

申请号：PCT/US2020/036633

申请日：2020-06-08

Applicant: THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC

Inventor： GROVER, Matthew, George

IPC: H04N21/854 ,  H04N21/438 ,  H04N21/443 ,  H04N21/435 ,  H04N21/81

Abstract: In one aspect, a method includes identifying an upcoming content modification opportunity on a channel. The method also includes responsive to identifying the upcoming content modification opportunity on the channel, identifying a group of multiple content- presentation devices tuned to the channel. The method also includes using, at least in part, an amount of content-presentation devices in the identified group as a basis to determine an amount of system resources to request. The method also includes requesting the determined amount of system resources for use in performing actions that facilitate at least a portion of the content-presentation devices in the identified group performing respective content-modification operations.

公开(公告)号：WO2020247849A1

公开(公告)日：2020-12-10

申请号：PCT/US2020/036461

申请日：2020-06-05

Applicant: THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC

Inventor： GROVER, Matthew George

IPC: H04N21/854 ,  H04N21/435 ,  H04N21/262 ,  H04N21/432 ,  H04N21/858

Abstract: In one aspect, a method includes a content-presentation device determining first and second intervals during which presentation of received content is modifiable, and transmitting first and second requests for first and second supplemental content. A link to content in a playlist may be received, the playlist including first supplemental content followed immediately by second supplemental content. The link may be used to retrieve the first supplemental content, which may be presented in a first modification operation during the first interval. Before completing the first modification operation, the content-presentation device may use the link to start retrieving the second supplemental content for a second modification operation scheduled immediately following the first modification operation, and may determine that while less than a threshold portion of the first modification operation remains incomplete, retrieval of the second supplemental content is also incomplete. The content- presentation device may then unschedule the second content-modification operation.

公开(公告)号：WO2020185822A1

公开(公告)日：2020-09-17

申请号：PCT/US2020/021972

申请日：2020-03-11

Applicant: THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC

Inventor： LYNCH, Wendell D.

IPC: H04N21/475

Abstract: Apparatus, systems, articles of manufacture, and methods for viewer authentication are disclosed. An example system includes a comparator to access audio metering data received from a user device and determine a level of exposure of a user of the user device to a program based on the audio metering data. The example system also includes a calculator to determine a weighting score based on the level of exposure. In addition, the example system includes a tallier to access voting data received from the user device for a ballot presented in the program and scale the voting data based on the weighting score.

公开(公告)号：WO2020131960A1

公开(公告)日：2020-06-25

申请号：PCT/US2019/066980

申请日：2019-12-17

Applicant: THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC

Inventor： DAVIS, Jeremey M. ,  MANNION, Nicholas

IPC: H04N21/458 ,  H04N21/45 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/24 ,  H04N21/2668

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to determine media exposure of a panelist are disclosed. An example apparatus include a data extractor to determine an anonymized identifier from media monitoring data corresponding to a personal people meter of a panelist; a filter to filter anonymized census data from a plurality of media devices based on the anonymized identifier; a data supplementer to backfill the media monitoring data using the filtered anonymized census data; and a media creditor to credit exposure to media for the panelist based on the backfilled media monitoring data.

公开(公告)号：WO2020131914A1

公开(公告)日：2020-06-25

申请号：PCT/US2019/066915

申请日：2019-12-17

Applicant: THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC

Inventor： NIELSEN, Christen V. ,  GISH, David ,  FRETT, Ken Joseph ,  COOPER, Timothy Scott ,  TOPCHY, Alexander

IPC: H04N21/4385 ,  H04N21/2389 ,  H04N21/24 ,  H04N21/8358

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for associating different watermarks detected in media. An example method disclosed herein includes determining whether a first watermark detected in a media signal is represented in a watermark data structure and associating the first watermark with a first media presentation record associated with a second watermark in response to the first watermark being associated in the watermark data structure with the second watermark. The example method further includes transmitting monitoring data including the first media presentation record to an audience measurement entity.

公开(公告)号：WO2020131739A1

公开(公告)日：2020-06-25

申请号：PCT/US2019/066612

申请日：2019-12-16

Applicant: THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC

Inventor： TOPCHY, Alexander ,  KUZNETSOV, Vladimir ,  DAVIS, Jeremey M.

IPC: G11B20/00 ,  G06T1/00 ,  H04N19/467

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for watermarking using starting phase modulation. An example method disclosed herein includes calculating a first instantaneous phase value for a first watermark component of a watermarked media signal at a first time, calculating a second instantaneous phase value for a second watermark component, determining a first sum of differences for the first and second instantaneous phase values relative to a first possible starting phase value, determining a second sum of differences for the first and second instantaneous phase values relative to a second possible starting phase value, selecting a corresponding one of the first possible starting phase value or the second possible starting phase value to be a starting phase value, decoding a bit value corresponding to the starting phase value, determining a payload based on the bit value and a symbol represented by watermark components.

公开(公告)号：WO2020131737A1

公开(公告)日：2020-06-25

申请号：PCT/US2019/066607

申请日：2019-12-16

Applicant: THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC

Inventor： CHIMENTI, Paul ,  KURZYNSKI, David, J. ,  VOYTENKO, Denis ,  ZINZER, Joshua

IPC: H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/443

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for a window-metric rule for return path data (RPD). In some examples, a media monitor includes a count calculator to determine a first count of a number of devices in a first household that reported RPD for a first day. The example media monitor also includes an RPD selector to compare the first count to a current window-metric, the current window-metric associated with a window of time for the first household, the window of time associated with a content provider and having N number of days. The example RPD selector the RPD from the first household for the first day when the first count does not satisfy the current window-metric. The example media monitor also includes a report generator to generate a media exposure report using the RPD from the first household for the first day when the first count satisfies the current window-metric, independent of if the first household has heartbeat data available.

公开(公告)号：WO2020076829A1

公开(公告)日：2020-04-16

申请号：PCT/US2019/055196

申请日：2019-10-08

Applicant: THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC

Inventor： SULLIVAN, Jonathan ,  FRIEDMAN, Joshua Ivan ,  BRAUN, Elise ,  CHIMENTI, Paul ,  LLANOS, Juan Guillermo ,  DAEMEN, Ludo ,  BOULTON, Freddy

IPC: G06N3/04 ,  G06N3/08 ,  G06N7/00

Abstract: Example methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) to implement neural network processing of set-top box return path data to estimate household demographics are disclosed. Example demographic estimation systems disclosed herein include a feature generator to generate features from return path data reported from set-top boxes associated with return path data households. Disclosed example demographic estimation systems also include a neural network to process the features generated from the return path data to predict demographic classification probabilities for the return path data households, the neural network to be trained based on panel data reported from meters that monitor media devices associated with panelist household. Disclosed example demographic estimation systems further include a demographic assignment engine to assign one or more demographic categories to respective ones of the return path data households based on the predicted demographic classification probabilities.

公开(公告)号：WO2019236477A1

公开(公告)日：2019-12-12

申请号：PCT/US2019/035212

申请日：2019-06-03

Applicant: THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC

Inventor： RAMASWAMY, Arun ,  JAIN, Anand ,  STAVROPOULOS, John

IPC: H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/4415 ,  H04N21/439 ,  H04H60/58 ,  G10L19/018

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to dynamically generate audio signatures adaptive to circumstances associated with media being monitored are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a signal selector to select a first signature scheme from among a plurality of signature schemes to generate monitored signatures for media being monitored by a meter. The first signature scheme is selected based on a circumstance associated with the media. The apparatus includes a signal generator to generate a first monitored signature from the media based on the first signature scheme. The apparatus further includes a communications interface to transmit the first monitored signature to a data collection facility.