METHODS AND APPARATUS TO IDENTIFY STREAMING MEDIA SOURCES

Patent №

US 10,932,001

Granted

2021-02-23

Filed 2017

Owner

THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC

Lab

AI components

1

kr

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

15467734

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.

Knowledge representationH04N 21/44204H04L 65/61H04L 65/65H04N 21/23109H04N 21/42203H04N 21/44224H04N 21/4782H04N 21/658+2 more

AI classification

Knowledge representation0.73
Planning0.36
Evolutionary computation0.08
Natural language0.01
Vision0.00
AI hardware0.00
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC

assignment · 424580554

Assignors

TAPSE, SANDEEP, OLMSTED, JASON, PETRO, JAMES, BORAWSKI, ALBERT T., FUHRER, BRIAN

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