Patents by Inventor Albert Ronald Perez

Albert Ronald Perez 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).

  • Patent number: 11887133
    Abstract: An example apparatus includes at least one memory, instructions, and at least one processor to execute the instructions to generate electronic mobile measurement data based on network communications received from first client devices, select attributes associated with the electronic mobile measurement data to include in a model, generate the model based on the attributes and a first portion of the electronic mobile measurement data, determine a percentage of a second portion of the electronic mobile measurement data that the model correctly associates with corresponding first users of the first client devices, and when the percentage satisfies a threshold determine: (a) when a second user operating a second client device is a primary user, and (b) when the user operating the second client device is a third user, and associate demographic information of the second user with the electronic mobile measurement data to reduce a misattribution error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Kumar Nagaraja Rao, Tianjue Luo, Albert Ronald Perez, Stephen S. Bell
  • Publication number: 20230281650
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to compensate impression data for misattribution and non-coverage are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Kumar Nagaraja Rao, Tianjue Luo, Albert Ronald Perez, Stephen S. Bell, Mimi Zhang, David Wong, Jennifer Haskell
  • Publication number: 20230230108
    Abstract: An example apparatus includes at least one memory, instructions, and at least one processor to execute the instructions to generate electronic mobile measurement data based on network communications received from first client devices, select attributes associated with the electronic mobile measurement data to include in a model, generate the model based on the attributes and a first portion of the electronic mobile measurement data, determine a percentage of a second portion of the electronic mobile measurement data that the model correctly associates with corresponding first users of the first client devices, and when the percentage satisfies a threshold determine: (a) when a second user operating a second client device is a primary user, and (b) when the user operating the second client device is a third user, and associate demographic information of the second user with the electronic mobile measurement data to reduce a misattribution error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Kumar Nagaraja Rao, Tianjue Luo, Albert Ronald Perez, Stephen S. Bell
  • Patent number: 11651391
    Abstract: An example apparatus includes at least one memory, instructions in the apparatus, and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to access first cookies and a plurality of user identifiers, the first cookies and the user identifiers corresponding to devices accessing media, determine an error between a first demographic estimate based on the first cookies forming a pattern and based on a second demographic estimate corresponding to the user identifiers, obtain impression information from a database proprietor, the impression information including second cookies, identify a subset of the second cookies that are associated with a same person based on the pattern, and associate impressions corresponding to the subset with the same person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Albert Ronald Perez, Mimi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11645665
    Abstract: Examples apparatus disclosed herein are to determine a plurality of weights based on a data structure having elements corresponding to pairings of ones of a plurality of demographic partition statistics and ones of a plurality of baseline demographic statistics obtained for a target population, the demographic partition statistics corresponding to a plurality of demographic partitions of a sample population, a first element of the data structure to combine a first one of the demographic partition statistics with a first one of the baseline demographic statistics of the target population based on a first value corresponding to a numerator term of an expression and a second value corresponding to a denominator term of the expression, the weights corresponding respectively to the demographic partitions of the sample population. Disclosed example apparatus are also to adjust the attribute data based on the weights to determine ratings data for the target population.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC
    Inventors: Michael Sheppard, Jonathan Sullivan, Alejandro Terrazas, Peter Lipa, Albert Ronald Perez
  • Publication number: 20230085973
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to adjust media impressions based on media impression notification loss rates in network communications are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Jonathan Sullivan, Michael Sheppard, Albert Ronald Perez, Alejandro Terrazas
  • Patent number: 11568431
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to compensate impression data for misattribution and non-coverage are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC
    Inventors: Kumar Nagaraja Rao, Tianjue Luo, Albert Ronald Perez, Stephen S. Bell, Mimi Zhang, David Wong, Jennifer Haskell
  • Patent number: 11526914
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to adjust media impressions based on media impression notification loss rates in network communications are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Sullivan, Michael Sheppard, Albert Ronald Perez, Alejandro Terrazas
  • Publication number: 20220129941
    Abstract: An example apparatus includes at least one memory, instructions in the apparatus, and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to access first cookies and a plurality of user identifiers, the first cookies and the user identifiers corresponding to devices accessing media, determine an error between a first demographic estimate based on the first cookies forming a pattern and based on a second demographic estimate corresponding to the user identifiers, obtain impression information from a database proprietor, the impression information including second cookies, identify a subset of the second cookies that are associated with a same person based on the pattern, and associate impressions corresponding to the subset with the same person.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Albert Ronald Perez, Mimi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11222356
    Abstract: An example apparatus includes means for extracting characters from first cookies stored in a first memory space, the first cookies collected from client devices via network communications, and means for storing in a second memory space, a pattern of characters in association with a first demographic to indicate that the pattern of characters and the first demographic are both representative of a same first unique audience member, the storing being in response to determining that at least two of the first cookies (1) include the pattern of characters, and (2) correspond to the first demographic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC
    Inventors: Albert Ronald Perez, Mimi Zhang
  • Publication number: 20210357992
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to adjust media impressions based on media impression notification loss rates in network communications are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Jonathan Sullivan, Michael Sheppard, Albert Ronald Perez, Alejandro Terrazas
  • Publication number: 20210304229
    Abstract: An example apparatus includes at least one memory, instructions, and at least one processor to execute the instructions to generate electronic mobile measurement data based on network communications received from first client devices, select attributes associated with the electronic mobile measurement data to include in a model, generate the model based on the attributes and a first portion of the electronic mobile measurement data, determine a percentage of a second portion of the electronic mobile measurement data that the model correctly associates with corresponding first users of the first client devices, and when the percentage satisfies a threshold determine: (a) when a second user operating a second client device is a primary user, and (b) when the user operating the second client device is a third user, and associate demographic information of the second user with the electronic mobile measurement data to reduce a misattribution error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Kumar Nagaraja Rao, Tianjue Luo, Albert Ronald Perez, Stephen S. Bell
  • Patent number: 11055752
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to adjust media impressions based on media impression notification loss rates in network communications are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Sullivan, Michael Sheppard, Albert Ronald Perez, Alejandro Terrazas
  • Patent number: 11037178
    Abstract: An example apparatus includes at least one processor and first memory comprising computer readable instructions that, when executed, cause the at least one processor to log an impression in second memory at an audience measurement entity based on a communication received from a computing device. The example computer readable instructions, when executed, cause the at least one processor to determine that a primary user of the computing device is not the user operating the computing device when a first probability score for the primary user does not satisfy a threshold, and in response to determining that the primary user is not the user operating the computing device, identify one of a plurality of secondary users as the user operating the computing device. The example computer readable instructions, when executed, cause the at least one processor to store demographic information of the user operating the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Kumar Nagaraja Rao, Tianjue Luo, Albert Ronald Perez, Stephen S. Bell
  • Publication number: 20210027323
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to compensate impression data for misattribution and non-coverage are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Kumar Nagaraja Rao, Tianjue Luo, Albert Ronald Perez, Stephen S. Bell, Mimi Zhang, David Wong, Jennifer Haskell
  • Publication number: 20200372527
    Abstract: Examples apparatus disclosed herein are to determine a plurality of weights based on a data structure having elements corresponding to pairings of ones of a plurality of demographic partition statistics and ones of a plurality of baseline demographic statistics obtained for a target population, the demographic partition statistics corresponding to a plurality of demographic partitions of a sample population, a first element of the data structure to combine a first one of the demographic partition statistics with a first one of the baseline demographic statistics of the target population based on a first value corresponding to a numerator term of an expression and a second value corresponding to a denominator term of the expression, the weights corresponding respectively to the demographic partitions of the sample population. Disclosed example apparatus are also to adjust the attribute data based on the weights to determine ratings data for the target population.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Sheppard, Jonathan Sullivan, Alejandro Terrazas, Peter Lipa, Albert Ronald Perez
  • Patent number: 10803475
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to compensate impression data for misattribution and non-coverage by a database proprietor are disclosed. An example method includes obtaining a count of media impressions occurring on a first type of computing device, a first portion of the media impressions corresponding to persons for whom demographic information is recognizable by a database proprietor and a second portion of the media impressions corresponding to persons for whom demographic information is unavailable to the database proprietor; and determining the demographic information for the second portion of the media impressions based on a first probability that media corresponding to the media impressions is accessed on the first type of computing device and based on a second probability that media is accessed on a second type of device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Kumar Nagaraja Rao, Tianjue Luo, Albert Ronald Perez, Stephen S. Bell, Mimi Zhang, David Wong, Jennifer Haskell
  • Patent number: 10740774
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to correct for bias in ratings data are disclosed. Example methods disclosed herein include accessing information specifying a set of population strata having corresponding strata demographic statistics capable of being combined to determine a first set of baseline demographic statistics for a sample population that corresponds to a second set of baseline demographic statistics for a target population. Disclosed example methods also include determining a set of weights corresponding respectively to the set of population strata that reduces bias between the second set of baseline demographic statistics for the target population and the first set of baseline demographic statistics for the sample population when the set of weights is applied to the strata demographic statistics to determine the first set of baseline demographic statistics for the sample population.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Michael Sheppard, Jonathan Sullivan, Alejandro Terrazas, Peter Lipa, Albert Ronald Perez
  • Publication number: 20200175546
    Abstract: An example apparatus includes means for extracting characters from first cookies stored in a first memory space, the first cookies collected from client devices via network communications, and means for storing in a second memory space, a pattern of characters in association with a first demographic to indicate that the pattern of characters and the first demographic are both representative of a same first unique audience member, the storing being in response to determining that at least two of the first cookies (1) include the pattern of characters, and (2) correspond to the first demographic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Albert Ronald Perez, Mimi Zhang
  • Patent number: 10552864
    Abstract: An example apparatus includes means for identifying a pattern in first cookies received via the Internet and stored in a storage device, the first cookies corresponding to devices accessing media via the Internet, means for determining an error between a first demographic estimate based on a potential pattern in the first cookies and a second demographic estimate based on user identifiers corresponding to the devices and received via the Internet, the means for determining the error to determine the potential pattern to be the pattern when the error is less than a threshold, means for accessing impression information received from a database proprietor via the Internet, the impression information including second cookies, and means for identifying a subset of the second cookies that are associated with a same person based on the pattern, the means for identifying the subset to associate impressions corresponding to the identified subset with the same person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Albert Ronald Perez, Mimi Zhang