Patents Assigned to The Nielsen Company, LLC
  • Patent number: 10193785
    Abstract: Apparatus to predict end of streaming media using a prediction model are disclosed herein. Examples disclosed herein comprise a predictor to determine a bandwidth rate associated with presentation of streaming media based on monitored traffic between a user device and the streaming media, a modeler to generate a prediction model based on characteristics of the bandwidth rate, and a forecaster to determine that a time when an output of the prediction model is below a minimum bandwidth threshold is a session end time for a streaming media session, the session end time corresponding to when the user device stops receiving the streaming media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company, LLC
    Inventor: Jan Besehanic
  • Patent number: 9551588
    Abstract: Methods and systems to determine consumer locations based on navigational voice cues are disclosed. An example method includes identifying, with a processor, a route point designated by a navigational voice cue output by a navigation system providing directions to an operator of a vehicle. The example method also includes determining, with the processor, at least one of a location or an anticipated location of an occupant of the vehicle based on the route point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: THE NIELSEN COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Ameyon R. Hawkins, Jan Besehanic, Jeremy T. Satterly, Jibri Duncan
  • Patent number: 8265989
    Abstract: Example systems, methods, processes, and apparatus for determining expected base sales for a product include obtaining sales data for a product sold at a point of sale location. The sales data can be organized in a time series according to a predetermined time period. The method further includes identifying a promotional event for at least one of the product and the point of sale location and excluding sales data corresponding to the promotional event. The remaining sales data is processed using a smoothed moving average model involving a plurality of passes through the remaining sales data. Expected base data for the product is generated based on the smoothed moving average model and output to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company, LLC
    Inventors: James Dodge, John Donmyer, Frank J. Slavik
  • Patent number: 7793318
    Abstract: Digital video signature apparatus and methods for use with video program identification systems are disclosed. The disclosed apparatus and methods identify a video program using a sequence of signatures. Each of the signatures includes a set of centroids corresponding to one of a plurality of frames of the video program. The apparatus and methods compare the sequence of signatures to a set of reference sequences of signatures and identify the video program based on the comparison of the sequence of signatures to the set of reference sequences of signatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company, LLC (US)
    Inventor: Kevin Deng