METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ASSOCIATING MEDIA DEVICES WITH A DEMOGRAPHIC COMPOSITION OF A GEOGRAPHIC AREA

Patent №

US 10,956,923

Granted

2021-03-23

Filed 2020

Owner

THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC

Lab

AI components

1

kr

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

16901969

Example methods and apparatus for associating media devices with a demographic composition of a geographic area are disclosed. Disclosed example apparatus include means for receiving a plurality of Internet Protocol addresses assigned to a media device associated with a panel member. Disclosed example apparatus also include means for resolving addresses, the means for resolving to determine a most used Internet Protocol address from the plurality of Internet Protocol addresses, determine a geographic location corresponding to the most used Internet Protocol address, in response to determining the geographic location corresponds to a location of an internet service provider, associate a geographic area with the media device, determine a demographic profile associated with the geographic are, and associate the demographic profile with the media device.

Knowledge representationG06Q 30/0205G06Q 30/02H04L 67/535H04W 4/025G06F 2221/2111G06Q 30/0201H04L 43/0811H04L 61/5014+3 more

AI classification

Knowledge representation0.56
Evolutionary computation0.11
Planning0.07
Vision0.00
Natural language0.00
AI hardware0.00
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC

assignment · 552510560

Assignors

BESEHANIC, JAN, LUFF, ROBERT, WRIGHT, DAVID HOWELL, MEARS, PAUL, RAMASWAMY, ARUN, MILAVSKY, JOSEPH G.

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