Patents by Inventor Per R. Anderson

Per R. Anderson 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).

  • Estimating demographic compositions of television audiences from audience similarities
    Patent number: 8839291
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for estimating demographic compositions of television audiences from audience similarities. In an aspect, pairwise cosine similarities of segment of viewers of rated and unrated television programs are determined, demographic information of rated programs is attributed to the unrated programs from the cosine similarity measures and demographic information for the rated programs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Per R. Anderson, Diane Lambert, Daniel J. Zigmond
  • Estimating demographic compositions of television audiences from audience similarities
    Patent number: 8453173
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for estimating demographic compositions of television audiences from audience similarities. In an aspect, pairwise cosine similarities of segment of viewers of rated and unrated television programs are determined, demographic information of rated programs is attributed to the unrated programs from the cosine similarity measures and demographic information for the rated programs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Per R. Anderson, Diane Lambert, Daniel J. Zigmond