Patents by Inventor Brian Fuhrer

Brian Fuhrer 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: 9774900
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to calculate video-on-demand and dynamically inserted advertisement viewing probability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Wood, John Charles Coughlin, Molly Poppie, Marie Kramer, Brian Fuhrer, Albert T. Borawski, Joseph G. Milavsky, Paul Donato, Balachander Shankar, David J. Kurzynski
  • Publication number: 20170078727
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to calculate video-on-demand and dynamically inserted advertisement viewing probability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: Benjamin Wood, John Charles Coughlin, Molly Poppie, Marie Kramer, Brian Fuhrer, Albert T. Borawski, Joseph G. Milavsky, Paul Donato, Balachander Shankar, David J. Kurzynski
  • Patent number: 9544632
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to calculate video-on-demand viewing probability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Wood, John Charles Coughlin, Molly Poppie, Marie Kramer, Brian Fuhrer, Albert T. Borawski, Joseph G. Milavsky, Paul Donato, Balachander Shankar, David J. Kurzynski
  • Publication number: 20160165287
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to calculate video-on-demand viewing probability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2016
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Benjamin Wood, John Charles Coughlin, Molly Poppie, Marie Kramer, Brian Fuhrer, Albert T. Borawski, Joseph G. Milavsky, Paul Donato, Balachander Shankar, David J. Kurzynski
  • Patent number: 9277265
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to calculate video-on-demand viewing probability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Wood, John Charles Coughlin, Molly Poppie, Marie Kramer, Brian Fuhrer, Albert T. Borawski, Joseph G. Milavsky, Paul Donato, Balachander Shankar, David J. Kurzynski
  • Publication number: 20150229979
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to calculate video-on-demand viewing probability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Inventors: Benjamin Wood, John Charles Coughlin, Molly Poppie, Marie Kramer, Brian Fuhrer, Albert T. Borawski, Joseph G. Milavsky, Paul Donato, Balachander Shankar, David J. Kurzynski
  • Publication number: 20150178740
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed to identify users associated with device application usage. A disclosed example method involves obtaining demographics of persons to participate in a panel for an audience research study, identifying a set of applications to be monitored, providing devices associated with the persons in the panel with a meter to record usage of the applications and with a user-to-application associator, the user-to-application associator to define associations between the applications to be monitored and the persons associate with the device before the applications are launched, receiving data from a first one of the devices identifying a first one of the persons as a primary user of a first one of the applications in the set of applications, receiving data from the first device identifying usage of the first application, and associating the demographics of the first person with the usage of the first application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventors: Albert T. Borawski, Joseph W. Brewer, Brian Fuhrer
  • Patent number: 8249992
    Abstract: Digital rights management and audience measurement systems and methods are disclosed. An example method includes receiving a request to upload media content to a content distributor, attempting to obtain a code associated with the media content, querying a program information database for program information associated with the media content using the code, and applying a business rule to the media content based on the program information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: David H. Harkness, Arun Ramaswamy, Kamal Nasser, Brian Fuhrer
  • Publication number: 20100174608
    Abstract: Digital rights management and audience measurement systems and methods are disclosed. An example method includes receiving a request to transfer a first packet of a media content at a router, extracting a code embedded in a payload of the first packet, analyzing a business rule based on the extracted code to determine if the media content is authorized for transfer, receiving a request to transfer a second packet of the media content after receiving the request to transfer the first packet, and when the media content is not authorized for transfer, preventing the second packet from being transferred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Inventors: David H. Harkness, Arun Ramaswamy, Kamal Nasser, Brian Fuhrer
  • Publication number: 20080249961
    Abstract: Digital rights management and audience measurement systems and methods are disclosed. An example method includes receiving a request to upload media content to a content distributor, attempting to obtain a code associated with the media content, querying a program information database for program information associated with the media content using the code, and applying a business rule to the media content based on the program information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventors: David H. Harkness, Arun Ramaswamy, Kamal Nasser, Brian Fuhrer