Patents by Inventor Jan Besehanic

Jan Besehanic has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230231929
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus to identify media devices are disclosed. An example network communications monitor includes network interface circuitry, computer readable instructions, and processor circuitry. The processor circuitry is to execute the computer readable instructions to detect, via the network interface circuitry, multiple network communications transmitted on a home network within the household, access panelist data that associates a panelist of the household with a panelist device of the panelist, determine, based on the panelist data, that one or more of the multiple network communications are associated with the panelist device, and cause storage of data identifying the one or more network communications in association with the panelist.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventor: Jan Besehanic
  • Patent number: 11689769
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to measure exposure to streaming media are disclosed. An example apparatus includes an event listener to listen for an event notification based on a playback position of a first media segment of a multi-segment media. The example apparatus includes a metadata handler to update a multi-file counter with an offset based on a duration of the first media segment, detect that a second media segment is a segment of the multi-segment media, determine a playback time within the second media segment, add the playback time to the multi-file counter to determine a corresponding playback time of the multi-segment media, and attempt to perform a lookup of a metadata tag in a table based on the playback time of the multi-segment media. The example apparatus includes and a transmitter to transmit the metadata tag corresponding to the playback time of the multi-segment media to an audience measurement entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventor: Jan Besehanic
  • Publication number: 20230188784
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and machine-readable storage media to monitor media presentations are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus includes a locator to compare a location of a mobile device with a set of reference locations at which audio monitoring is to be performed. The disclosed example apparatus further includes an audio receiver to enable a microphone of the mobile device to collect audio for media monitoring when (1) the location of the mobile device corresponds to a first one of the reference locations and (2) a media presentation monitor at the first one of the reference locations indicates a likelihood of media being presented at the first location satisfies a threshold. In some disclosed examples, the audio receiver of the example apparatus is to disable the microphone from collecting audio for media monitoring when the location of the mobile device does not correspond to any of the reference locations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventor: Jan Besehanic
  • Publication number: 20230177546
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2023
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Jan Besehanic, Paul Mears, Joseph G. Milavsky, Robert A. Luff, Arun Ramaswamy, David Howell Wright
  • Patent number: 11652899
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus to identify media devices are disclosed. An example apparatus includes memory, instructions, and at least one processor. The at least one processor is to execute the instructions to cause the at least one processor to at least monitor a home network associated with a panelist home for a network communication, maintain a table of device identifiers and respective media access control addresses corresponding to registered devices on the home network, in response to the detection of the network communication transmitted on the home network, attempt to identify a device identifier of the requesting device from the table of device identifiers and respective media access control addresses based on a media access control address of the requesting device; and in response to a failure to identify the device identifier, prompt the panelist to provide a device identifier for the unidentified device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventor: Jan Besehanic
  • Patent number: 11652901
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus to identify media devices are disclosed. An example network communications monitor includes network interface circuitry, computer readable instructions, and processor circuitry. The processor circuitry is to execute the computer readable instructions to detect, via the network interface circuitry, multiple network communications transmitted on a home network within the household, access panelist data that associates a panelist of the household with a panelist device of the panelist, determine, based on the panelist data, that one or more of the multiple network communications are associated with the panelist device, and cause storage of data identifying the one or more network communications in association with the panelist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventor: Jan Besehanic
  • Patent number: 11653062
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to determine audio source impact on an audience of media are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus includes at least one memory, instructions in the apparatus, and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to: divide audio of monitored media into successive audio segments; perform speaker identification on the audio segments; generate confidence values for speakers identified in the audio segments; generate speaker identification data for ones of the speakers having respective confidence values that satisfy a threshold; and analyze the speaker identification data to determine a speaker impact on audience ratings data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Gregory Milavsky, Hashem Alsaket, James Bartelme, Jan Besehanic, Edward Stembier
  • Patent number: 11627059
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to coordinate receipt of monitoring information. An example method includes, performing a lookup using a session identifier of a monitoring message received at a load balancer, the session identifier including an impression processor identifier, the monitoring message requesting an update to a session, determining whether a difference between a time of last activity of the session and a time of receipt of the received message exceeds a threshold duration, and in response to determining that the difference does not exceed the threshold duration, updating the time of last activity of the session to the time of receipt of the received message, and routing the received message to the impression processor, the impression processor to credit a media presentation identified in a payload of the received message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Alan N. Bosworth, Kevin K. Gaynor, Daniel J. Krotov, Jan Besehanic
  • Publication number: 20230100554
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, storage media, etc., to perform media monitoring for mobile platforms using messaging associated with adaptive bitrate streaming are disclosed. An example media platform disclosed herein is to detect an outgoing message to be sent by the mobile platform to stream media in accordance with an online streaming protocol, and associate resource identifier information included in the outgoing message with a time value. The disclosed example media platform is also to transmit the outgoing message to a first server to cause the media to be streamed to the mobile platform, and transmit the resource identifier information and the time value to a second server different from the first server to cause a media impression associated with the mobile platform to be monitored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventor: Jan Besehanic
  • Publication number: 20230083900
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to correlate a demographic segment with a fixed device are disclosed. An example method includes accessing a record indicating a public Internet Protocol (IP) address used by a fixed device. A monitoring data record received from a mobile device is accessed. A demographic segment of a user of the mobile device is determined. The mobile device is associated with the fixed device when an IP address of the mobile device from the monitoring data record matches the public IP address used by the fixed device. The demographic segment of the user of the mobile device is associated with the fixed device based on the association of the fixed device and the mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Abello, Arun Ramaswamy, Jan Besehanic
  • Patent number: 11601714
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and machine-readable storage media to monitor media presentations are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus includes a locator to compare a location of a mobile device with a set of reference locations at which audio monitoring is to be performed. The disclosed example apparatus further includes an audio receiver to enable a microphone of the mobile device to collect audio for media monitoring when (1) the location of the mobile device corresponds to a first one of the reference locations and (2) a media presentation monitor at the first one of the reference locations indicates a likelihood of media being presented at the first location satisfies a threshold. In some disclosed examples, the audio receiver of the example apparatus is to disable the microphone from collecting audio for media monitoring when the location of the mobile device does not correspond to any of the reference locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventor: Jan Besehanic
  • Patent number: 11595487
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus to identify media presentation devices are disclosed. An example method includes associating a domain name service query received at a pseudo DNS server with a media exposure measurement location based on a public Internet Protocol address of the received domain name service query, wherein the pseudo DNS server does not provide domain name-to-IP address translation, and wherein the pseudo DNS server is to receive the domain name service query and transmit a redirect message identifying a conventional DNS server. The example method further includes crediting the media exposure measurement location with accessing media identified based on the domain name service query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC
    Inventor: Jan Besehanic
  • Publication number: 20230029204
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus to identify media devices are disclosed. An example network communications monitor includes network interface circuitry, computer readable instructions, and processor circuitry. The processor circuitry is to execute the computer readable instructions to detect, via the network interface circuitry, multiple network communications transmitted on a home network within the household, access panelist data that associates a panelist of the household with a panelist device of the panelist, determine, based on the panelist data, that one or more of the multiple network communications are associated with the panelist device, and cause storage of data identifying the one or more network communications in association with the panelist.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventor: Jan Besehanic
  • Patent number: 11563664
    Abstract: Methods to predict end of streaming media using a prediction model are disclosed herein. Examples disclosed herein comprise generating a prediction model using a bandwidth of a streaming media, setting a bandwidth threshold based on a type of the streaming media, identifying an end of a streaming media session, and determining a decay factor for the prediction model using the type of the streaming media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC
    Inventor: Jan Besehanic
  • Patent number: 11556946
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Jan Besehanic, Paul Mears, Joseph G. Milavsky, Robert A. Luff, Arun Ramaswamy, David Howell Wright
  • Publication number: 20220408151
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to measure exposure to streaming media are disclosed. An example apparatus to measure media exposure, the apparatus including memory, computer readable instructions, and processor circuitry to execute the computer readable instructions to obtain an image of streaming media presented by a media device, the media device separate from the processor circuitry, extract a video watermark from a chroma key of the obtained image, convert the video watermark into text formatted metadata, and transmit the text formatted metadate to a central facility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventor: Jan Besehanic
  • Patent number: 11522932
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, storage media, etc., to perform media monitoring for mobile platforms using messaging associated with adaptive bitrate streaming are disclosed. An example media platform disclosed herein is to detect an adaptive bitrate streaming uniform resource locator (URL) in an outgoing message to be sent by the mobile platform to stream media in accordance with an adaptive bitrate streaming protocol, and associate the adaptive bitrate streaming URL with a time value. The disclosed example media platform is also to transmit the outgoing message to a first server to cause the media to be streamed to the mobile platform, and transmit the adaptive bitrate streaming URL and the time value to a second server different from the first server to cause a media impression associated with the mobile platform to be monitored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventor: Jan Besehanic
  • Patent number: 11509554
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to coordinate receipt of monitoring information are disclosed. An example method includes in response to a first received message requesting a session identifier, creating, with a first processing device, the session identifier. The session identifier including an identifier of the first processor. The first message is received from a media device via a load balancer. First monitoring information is extracted from the first message. The first monitoring information is stored in a first database of the first processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventor: Jan Besehanic
  • Publication number: 20220343618
    Abstract: Example systems are to capture screenshots corresponding respectively to search results pages returned from a reverse image search engine, the search results pages corresponding respectively to image frames of a video processed by the reverse image search engine, generate base query records corresponding respectively to ones of the screenshots that have respective textual information matching a base search term, the respective ones of the base query records including the base search term and at least portions of the respective textual information from the corresponding screenshots, determine an object search term based on a frequency analysis of the textual information included in the base query records, generate object query records corresponding respectively to ones of the base query records that have respective textual information matching the object search term, and identify an object depicted in the video based on one or more criteria applied to the object query records.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventor: Jan Besehanic
  • Patent number: 11457083
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to correlate a demographic segment with a fixed device are disclosed. An example method includes accessing a record indicating a public Internet Protocol (IP) address used by a fixed device. A monitoring data record received from a mobile device is accessed. A demographic segment of a user of the mobile device is determined. The mobile device is associated with the fixed device when an IP address of the mobile device from the monitoring data record matches the public IP address used by the fixed device. The demographic segment of the user of the mobile device is associated with the fixed device based on the association of the fixed device and the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Abello, Arun Ramaswamy, Jan Besehanic