Patents by Inventor Anthony B. STRINGER

Anthony B. STRINGER 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: 20230051984
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to monitor media presentations are disclosed. An example tangible computer readable storage medium includes instructions that, when executed, cause a machine to at least instrument media with monitoring instructions; provide the instrumented media to a media device via a hypertext transport secure protocol, the monitoring instructions to cause the media device to request a panelist identifier associated with the media device; detect a media event based on an action of the media device; determine media-identifying information based on the media event; and generate a record including the media-identifying information and the panelist identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Robert Peter BORLAND, Jonathon Brett RUBIN, Anthony B. STRINGER, Adam SCHENKER, Shailendra PARANJAPE
  • Patent number: 11468458
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to monitor media presentations are disclosed. An example tangible computer readable storage medium includes instructions that, when executed, cause a machine to at least provide a panelist meter to a media device, the panelist meter including a web server to serve a panelist identifier on a local network of a device, provide a software development kit to a media provider, the software development kit to enable the media provider to create monitoring enabled media to request the panelist identifier from the web server of the panelist meter using a web protocol request, transmit the panelist identifier in response to a request from the panelist meter, the request including demographic information associated with a user of the media device, and collect media monitoring data from the monitoring enabled media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Robert Peter Borland, Jonathon Brett Rubin, Anthony B. Stringer, Adam Schenker, Shailendra Paranjape
  • Publication number: 20210035133
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to monitor media presentations are disclosed. An example tangible computer readable storage medium includes instructions that, when executed, cause a machine to at least provide a panelist meter to a media device, the panelist meter including a web server to serve a panelist identifier on a local network of a device, provide a software development kit to a media provider, the software development kit to enable the media provider to create monitoring enabled media to request the panelist identifier from the web server of the panelist meter using a web protocol request, transmit the panelist identifier in response to a request from the panelist meter, the request including demographic information associated with a user of the media device, and collect media monitoring data from the monitoring enabled media.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Robert Peter BORLAND, Jonathon Brett RUBIN, Anthony B. STRINGER, Adam SCHENKER, Shailendra PARANJAPE
  • Patent number: 10810607
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to monitor media presentations are disclosed. An example method includes collecting demographic information from a user, transmitting the demographic information to a central facility, generating a panelist identifier identifying the user, and hosting a web server to serve the panelist identifier to media that is instrumented with monitoring instructions executing on the media device, the monitoring instructions, when executed, to collect monitoring information and transmit the monitoring information along with the panelist identifier to the central facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Robert Peter Borland, Jonathon Brett Rubin, Anthony B. Stringer, Adam Schenker, Shailendra Paranjape
  • Patent number: 9935926
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to monitor media presentations are disclosed. An example method includes extracting first network packet parameters from a first network packet received at a media device when retrieving a first encrypted web page, storing the first network packet parameters in association with identifying information for the first encrypted web page, extracting second network packet parameters from a second network packet received at the media device from an unknown encrypted web page, when the extension does not collect identifying information for the unknown encrypted web page, comparing the second network packet parameters to the first network packet parameters, and identifying the unknown encrypted web page as the first encrypted web page when the comparison of the second network packet parameters to the first network packet parameters has a similarity above a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Robert P. Borland, Jonathon Brett Rubin, Anthony B. Stringer, Adam Schenker, Shailendra Paranjape
  • Publication number: 20170041301
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to monitor media presentations are disclosed. An example method includes extracting first network packet parameters from a first network packet received at a media device when retrieving a first encrypted web page, storing the first network packet parameters in association with identifying information for the first encrypted web page, extracting second network packet parameters from a second network packet received at the media device from an unknown encrypted web page, when the extension does not collect identifying information for the unknown encrypted web page, comparing the second network packet parameters to the first network packet parameters, and identifying the unknown encrypted web page as the first encrypted web page when the comparison of the second network packet parameters to the first network packet parameters has a similarity above a threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventors: Robert P. Borland, Jonathon Brett Rubin, Anthony B. Stringer, Adam Schenker, Shailendra Paranjape
  • Patent number: 9516001
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to monitor media presentations are disclosed. An example method includes extracting first network packet parameters from a first network packet received at a media device when retrieving a first encrypted web page, storing, at the media device, the first network packet parameters in association with a uniform resource locator for the first encrypted web page, the uniform resource locator received from an extension in a web browser at the media device, extracting second network packet parameters from a second network packet received at the media device from an unknown encrypted web page, when the extension is inoperative, comparing the second network packet parameters to the first network packet parameters, and identifying the unknown encrypted web page as the first encrypted web page when the comparison of the second network packet to the first network packet parameters has a similarity above a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC
    Inventors: Robert P. Borland, Jonathon Brett Rubin, Anthony B. Stringer, Adam Schenker, Shailendra Paranjape
  • Publication number: 20160094567
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to monitor media presentations are disclosed. An example method includes extracting first network packet parameters from a first network packet received at a media device when retrieving a first encrypted web page, storing, at the media device, the first network packet parameters in association with a uniform resource locator for the first encrypted web page, the uniform resource locator received from an extension in a web browser at the media device, extracting second network packet parameters from a second network packet received at the media device from an unknown encrypted web page, when the extension is inoperative, comparing the second network packet parameters to the first network packet parameters, and identifying the unknown encrypted web page as the first encrypted web page when the comparison of the second network packet to the first network packet parameters has a similarity above a threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2014
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventors: Robert P. BORLAND, Jonathon Brett RUBIN, Anthony B. STRINGER, Adam SCHENKER, Shailendra PARANJAPE
  • Publication number: 20160078459
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to monitor media presentations are disclosed. An example method includes collecting demographic information from a user, transmitting the demographic information to a central facility, generating a panelist identifier identifying the user, and hosting a web server to serve the panelist identifier to media that is instrumented with monitoring instructions executing on the media device, the monitoring instructions, when executed, to collect monitoring information and transmit the monitoring information along with the panelist identifier to the central facility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: Robert Peter BORLAND, Jonathon Brett RUBIN, Anthony B. STRINGER, Adam SCHENKER, Shailendra PARANJAPE