METHODS AND APPARATUS TO OBTAIN ANONYMOUS AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT DATA FROM NETWORK SERVER DATA FOR PARTICULAR DEMOGRAPHIC AND USAGE PROFILES
Patent №
US 8,307,006
Granted
2012-11-06
Filed 2010
Owner
THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC, A DELAWARE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
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AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
12827865
Methods and apparatus to obtain anonymous audience measurement data from network server data for particular demographic and usage profiles are disclosed. An example method to provide anonymous audience measurement data to an audience measurement entity disclosed herein comprises obtaining a demographic profile and a network usage profile, sampling customer data stored in a customer database not accessible by the audience measurement entity to generate a customer sample representative of the demographic profile and the network usage profile without customer intervention, the customer sample including customer identification information, processing log data obtained from a network server not accessible by the audience measurement entity using the customer identification information to determine audience measurement data associated with customers in the customer sample, and removing the customer identification information from the audience measurement data to prepare the anonymous audience measurement data for the audience measurement entity.
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THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC, A DELAWARE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
assignment · 256200696
Assignors
HANNAN, KEVIN MICHAEL, PAPAKOSTAS, ACHILLEAS, PEREZ, ALBERT RONALD, YONKER, MIKE ANDREW, ALBINO, AUSTIN
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