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

Lab

AI components

2

kr · planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

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.

Knowledge representationPlanningG06F 16/24G06Q 30/02H04L 67/535G06F 16/00

AI classification

Knowledge representation1.00
Planning0.98
Vision0.05
Evolutionary computation0.05
Machine learning0.04
Natural language0.01
Speech0.01
AI hardware0.00

Ownership

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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