Patents by Inventor William Deshong

William Deshong 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: 20240086953
    Abstract: Example methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to implement calibration of convenience panel data to reduce behavioral bias are disclosed. Disclosed example apparatus include a distribution estimator to determine a first behavioral distribution for first convenience panel data associated with a first market and a measurement period, determine a second behavioral distribution for second convenience panel data associated with a second market and the measurement period, and determine a third behavioral distribution for probabilistic panel data associated with the second market and the measurement period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: William Deshong, Jonathon Wells, Stephen S. Bell, Behiye Karayaka
  • Patent number: 11842362
    Abstract: Example methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to implement calibration of convenience panel data to reduce behavioral bias are disclosed. Disclosed example apparatus include a distribution estimator to determine a first behavioral distribution for first convenience panel data associated with a first market and a measurement period, determine a second behavioral distribution for second convenience panel data associated with a second market and the measurement period, and determine a third behavioral distribution for probabilistic panel data associated with the second market and the measurement period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: William Deshong, Jonathon Wells, Stephen S. Bell, Behiye Karayaka
  • Publication number: 20230396844
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to determine an additive reach adjustment factor for audience measurement are disclosed. An example apparatus for additive reach adjustment includes at least one memory, machine readable instructions, and processor circuitry to execute the machine readable instructions to identify a first probability, the first probability associated with a population tuning to a marketing campaign, the tuning including missing data, identify a second probability, the second probability associated with the population not tuning to the marketing campaign or the tuning including missing data, determine an additive reach adjustment based on a compound probability and a no-tuning probability, the compound probability and the no-tuning probability determined using the first probability and the second probability, and credit a population exposed to the marketing campaign to include missing impressions based on the additive reach adjustment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Joshua T. Deragon, David J. Kurzynski, Denis Voytenko, Horalia Armas, William DeShong, Brett Gebhardt
  • Publication number: 20230394510
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to determine unified entity weights for audience measurement. Example apparatus disclosed herein are to obtain entity data associated with an entity over a period of time including a plurality of time segments, the entity data including an entity identifier, adaptable weights of the entity associated respectively with the time segments in the period of time, and panel statuses of the entity that correspond to respective ones of the time segments in the period of time, and average the adaptable weights based in the panel statuses to determine a unified weight of the entity for the period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Joshua T. Deragon, David J. Kurzynski, Denis Voytenko, Horalia Armas, William Deshong, Brett Gebhardt
  • Publication number: 20230107456
    Abstract: Example methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to implement calibration of convenience panel data to reduce behavioral bias are disclosed. Disclosed example apparatus include a distribution estimator to determine a first behavioral distribution for first convenience panel data associated with a first market and a measurement period, determine a second behavioral distribution for second convenience panel data associated with a second market and the measurement period, and determine a third behavioral distribution for probabilistic panel data associated with the second market and the measurement period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: William Deshong, Jonathon Wells, Stephen S. Bell, Behiye Karayaka
  • Patent number: 11468459
    Abstract: Example methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to implement calibration of convenience panel data to reduce behavioral bias are disclosed. Disclosed example apparatus include a distribution estimator to determine a first behavioral distribution for first convenience panel data associated with a first market and a measurement period, determine a second behavioral distribution for second convenience panel data associated with a second market and the measurement period, and determine a third behavioral distribution for probabilistic panel data associated with the second market and the measurement period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: William Deshong, Jonathon Wells, Stephen S. Bell, Behiye Karayaka
  • Publication number: 20200202372
    Abstract: Example methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to implement calibration of convenience panel data to reduce behavioral bias are disclosed. Disclosed example apparatus include a distribution estimator to determine a first behavioral distribution for first convenience panel data associated with a first market and a measurement period, determine a second behavioral distribution for second convenience panel data associated with a second market and the measurement period, and determine a third behavioral distribution for probabilistic panel data associated with the second market and the measurement period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: William Deshong, Jonathon Wells, Stephen S. Bell, Behiye Karayaka