METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE A DURATION OF MEDIA PRESENTATION BASED ON TUNING SESSION DURATION

Patent №

US 9,986,272

Granted

2018-05-29

Filed 2016

Owner

THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC

Lab

AI components

1

ml

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

15011455

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to monitor media presentation to determine a period of media presentation based on tuning session period are disclosed. Example methods disclosed herein include determining a first tuning session based on a period of time between channel changes of a first media presentation device, determining first presentation session data within the determined first tuning session, determining a model relating the first tuning session with the first presentation session data, determine a second tuning session for tuning data from a second media presentation device, selecting the model for the second tuning session, based on a match of a first duration of the second tuning session and a second duration associated with the model, and estimating second presentation session data for the second tuning session based on the model.

Machine learningH04N 21/252H04N 21/44222H04N 21/4667

AI classification

Machine learning0.99
AI hardware0.49
Knowledge representation0.15
Natural language0.09
Speech0.09
Planning0.01
Evolutionary computation0.01
Vision0.00

Ownership

THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC

assignment · 376860685

Assignors

SHEPPARD, MICHAEL, SULLIVAN, JONATHAN, LIPA, PETER, TERRAZAS, ALEJANDRO

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