Patents by Inventor Joseph W. Brewer

Joseph W. Brewer 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: 20240013238
    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: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Albert T. Borawski, Joseph W. Brewer, Brian Fuhrer
  • Patent number: 11798011
    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: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Albert T. Borawski, Joseph W. Brewer, Brian Fuhrer
  • Publication number: 20230115724
    Abstract: An example includes a segment collector to: access impression records indicative of media access segments, the media access segments including start times and end times corresponding to media accessed by a panelist; and determine ones of the impression records that include a watermark corresponding to a first media platform presenting the media; a segment classifier to convert a first one of the impression records including the watermark to a converted impression record; and combine the converted impression record corresponding to the first media platform and a second impression record corresponding to a second media platform; and a media creditor to generate audience measurement metrics based on the combined impression records.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Narasimha Reddy Goli, Michael Allen Bivins, Gangadhar Jakkula, Jarrell Jay Mikuta, Joseph W. Brewer, Kevin Rini, Carol A. Lynch, Michael Tierney
  • Patent number: 11470403
    Abstract: An example includes a segment collector to: access impression records indicative of media access segments, the media access segments including start times and end times corresponding to media accessed by a panelist; and determine ones of the impression records that include a watermark corresponding to a first media platform presenting the media; a segment classifier to convert a first one of the impression records including the watermark to a converted impression record; and combine the converted impression record corresponding to the first media platform and a second impression record corresponding to a second media platform; and a media creditor to generate audience measurement metrics based on the combined impression records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Narasimha Reddy Goli, Michael Allen Bivins, Gangadhar Jakkula, Jarrell Jay Mikuta, Joseph W. Brewer, Kevin Rini, Carol A. Lynch, Michael Tierney
  • Publication number: 20220046333
    Abstract: An example includes a segment collector to: access impression records indicative of media access segments, the media access segments including start times and end times corresponding to media accessed by a panelist; and determine ones of the impression records that include a watermark corresponding to a first media platform presenting the media; a segment classifier to convert a first one of the impression records including the watermark to a converted impression record; and combine the converted impression record corresponding to the first media platform and a second impression record corresponding to a second media platform; and a media creditor to generate audience measurement metrics based on the combined impression records.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Narasimha Reddy Goli, Michael Allen Bivins, Gangadhar Jakkula, Jarrell Jay Mikuta, Joseph W. Brewer, Kevin Rini, Carol A. Lynch, Michael Tierney
  • Patent number: 11102558
    Abstract: An example includes a segment collector to: access impression records indicative of media access segments, the media access segments including start times and end times corresponding to media accessed by a panelist; and determine ones of the impression records that include a watermark corresponding to a first media platform presenting the media; a segment classifier to convert a first one of the impression records including the watermark to a converted impression record; and combine the converted impression record corresponding to the first media platform and a second impression record corresponding to a second media platform; and a media creditor to generate audience measurement metrics based on the combined impression records.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Narasimha Reddy Goli, Michael Allen Bivins, Gangadhar Jakkula, Jarrell Jay Mikuta, Joseph W. Brewer, Kevin Rini, Carol A. Lynch, Michael Tierney
  • Publication number: 20210158379
    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: February 1, 2021
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Albert T. Borawski, Joseph W. Brewer, Brian Fuhrer
  • Patent number: 10909551
    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: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Albert T. Borawski, Joseph W. Brewer, Brian Fuhrer
  • Publication number: 20200007954
    Abstract: An example includes a segment collector to: access impression records indicative of media access segments, the media access segments including start times and end times corresponding to media accessed by a panelist; and determine ones of the impression records that include a watermark corresponding to a first media platform presenting the media; a segment classifier to convert a first one of the impression records including the watermark to a converted impression record; and combine the converted impression record corresponding to the first media platform and a second impression record corresponding to a second media platform; and a media creditor to generate audience measurement metrics based on the combined impression records.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Narasimha Reddy Goli, Michael Allen Bivins, Gangadhar Jakkula, Jarrell Jay Mikuta, Joseph W. Brewer, Kevin Rini, Carol A. Lynch, Michael Tierney
  • Patent number: 10412469
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for determining media access sessions. In an example, an apparatus to determine media access sessions includes a record locator to access, in a data store, a first media impression record indicative of a first media access segment, and a second media impression record indicative of a second media access segment and a view counter. The view counter is to update at least one of the first or second media impression records in the data store, when the second media access segment occurs within a threshold time after the first media access segment, to indicate that the first and second media access segments are associated with a same first media access session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC
    Inventors: Narasimha Reddy Goli, Michael Allen Bivins, Gangadhar Jakkula, Jarrell Jay Mikuta, Joseph W. Brewer, Kevin Rini, Carol A. Lynch, Michael Tierney
  • Publication number: 20170180798
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for determining media access sessions. In an example, an apparatus to determine media access sessions includes a record locator to access, in a data store, a first media impression record indicative of a first media access segment, and a second media impression record indicative of a second media access segment and a view counter. The view counter is to update at least one of the first or second media impression records in the data store, when the second media access segment occurs within a threshold time after the first media access segment, to indicate that the first and second media access segments are associated with a same first media access session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Narasimha Reddy Goli, Michael Allen Bivins, Gangadhar Jakkula, Jarrell Jay Mikuta, Joseph W. Brewer, Kevin Rini, Carol A. Lynch, Michael Tierney
  • 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