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

Patent №

US 11,556,946

Granted

2023-01-17

Filed 2021

Owner

THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC

Lab

AI components

1

kr

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

17208709

Example methods and apparatus for associating media devices with a demographic composition of a geographic area are disclosed. Disclosed example apparatus are to obtain a plurality of Internet Protocol addresses assigned to a media device associated with a panel member. Disclosed example apparatus are also 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, associate a geographic area with the media device in response to a determination that the geographic location corresponds to a location of an internet service provider, determine a demographic profile associated with the geographic area, 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 representation0.91
Planning0.16
Machine learning0.12
Evolutionary computation0.02
AI hardware0.01
Natural language0.00
Vision0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC

assignment · 588990956

Assignors

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

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