METHODS AND APPARATUS TO ASSIGN VIEWERS TO MEDIA METER DATA

Patent №

US 11,516,543

Granted

2022-11-29

Filed 2020

Owner

THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC

Lab

AI components

2

kr · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

16998596

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to assign viewers to media meter data are disclosed. An apparatus includes memory, and a processor to execute instructions to: determine first probabilities for first panelists in a first household based on a first number of minutes of first media presented by a first media presentation device monitored by a first meter, determine second probabilities for second panelists in a plurality of second households based on a second number of minutes of second media presented by second media presentation devices monitored by a plurality of second meters, compare the first probabilities and the second probabilities to identify a candidate household from the plurality of second households to associated with the first household, and impute respective portions of the first number of minutes to corresponding ones of the first panelists when monitored behavior of the candidate household matches monitored behavior of the first household.

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Ownership

THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC

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