Patents by Inventor Katherine T. Williams

Katherine T. Williams 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: 12003800
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to determine headphone adjustment for portable people meter listening to encoded audio streams are disclosed. An example system disclosed herein includes meter data analyzer circuitry to determine an audience estimate for streaming media based on media data measured by a media meter, the media meter to measure the streaming media based on an identification of the streaming media in ambient audio collected by a microphone of the media meter, and data analyzer circuitry to calculate at least one headphone adjustment factor based on a first determined proportion of an audience that listens to streaming media via headphones and a second determined proportion of the audience that listens to streaming media without headphones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Inventors: Kelly Dixon, Francis C. Fasinski, Robin J. Gentry, Edward Murphy, Jacob Martin, Colin King, Emily Neuhoff, Katherine T. Williams, Christopher Heider, Rachel Szabo, Khaldoon Abu-Hakmeh
  • Publication number: 20230209117
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to determine headphone adjustment for portable people meter listening to encoded audio streams are disclosed. An example system disclosed herein includes meter data analyzer circuitry to determine an audience estimate for streaming media based on media data measured by a media meter, the media meter to measure the streaming media based on an identification of the streaming media in ambient audio collected by a microphone of the media meter, and data analyzer circuitry to calculate at least one headphone adjustment factor based on a first determined proportion of an audience that listens to streaming media via headphones and a second determined proportion of the audience that listens to streaming media without headphones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Kelly Dixon, Francis C. Fasinski, Robin J. Gentry, Edward Murphy, Jacob Martin, Colin King, Emily Neuhoff, Katherine T. Williams, Christopher Heider, Rachel Szabo, Khaldoon Abu-Hakmeh
  • Patent number: 11601701
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to determine headphone adjustment for portable people meter listening to encoded audio streams are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Kelly Dixon, Francis C. Fasinski, Robin J. Gentry, Edward Murphy, Jacob Martin, Colin King, Emily Neuhoff, Katherine T. Williams, Christopher Heider, Rachel Szabo, Khaldoon Abu-Hakmeh
  • Publication number: 20210392389
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to determine headphone adjustment for portable people meter listening to encoded audio streams are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: Kelly Dixon, Francis C. Fasinski, Robin J. Gentry, Edward Murphy, Jacob Martin, Colin King, Emily Neuhoff, Katherine T. Williams, Christopher Heider, Rachel Szabo, Khaldoon Abu-Hakmeh