Patents by Inventor Michael Andrew Yonker
Michael Andrew Yonker 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).
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Patent number: 12355851Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus to monitor mobile Internet activity are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, machine-readable instructions, programmable circuitry to execute the machine-readable instructions to at least assign a first port of a proxy server to a mobile device associated with a panelist, cause transmission of configuration data to the mobile device to instruct the mobile device to transmit future requests the first port of the proxy server, obtain a first request for media on the first port originating from the mobile device, and after a determination that the first request originated from an Internet Protocol (IP) address associated with an IP address range representative of devices on a cellular network, service the first request, generate a data association, request the media from an Internet media provider identified in the first request, and cause transmission of the media to the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2023Date of Patent: July 8, 2025Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLCInventors: Achilleas Papakostas, Michael Andrew Yonker
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Publication number: 20240205302Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus to monitor mobile Internet activity are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, machine-readable instructions, programmable circuitry to execute the machine-readable instructions to at least assign a first port of a proxy server to a mobile device associated with a panelist, cause transmission of configuration data to the mobile device to instruct the mobile device to transmit future requests the first port of the proxy server, obtain a first request for media on the first port originating from the mobile device, and after a determination that the first request originated from an Internet Protocol (IP) address associated with an IP address range representative of devices on a cellular network, service the first request, generate a data association, request the media from an Internet media provider identified in the first request, and cause transmission of the media to the mobile device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2023Publication date: June 20, 2024Applicant: The Nielsen Company (US), LLCInventors: Achilleas Papakostas, Michael Andrew Yonker
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Patent number: 11849001Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus to monitor mobile Internet activity are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, machine-readable instructions, programmable circuitry to execute the machine-readable instructions to at least assign a first port of a proxy server to a mobile device associated with a panelist, cause transmission of configuration data to the mobile device to instruct the mobile device to transmit future requests the first port of the proxy server, obtain a first request for media on the first port originating from the mobile device, and after a determination that the first request originated from an Internet Protocol (IP) address associated with an IP address range representative of devices on a cellular network, service the first request, generate a data association, request the media from an Internet media provider identified in the first request, and cause transmission of the media to the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLCInventors: Achilleas Papakostas, Michael Andrew Yonker
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Publication number: 20220417340Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus to monitor mobile Internet activity are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, machine-readable instructions, programmable circuitry to execute the machine-readable instructions to at least assign a first port of a proxy server to a mobile device associated with a panelist, cause transmission of configuration data to the mobile device to instruct the mobile device to transmit future requests the first port of the proxy server, obtain a first request for media on the first port originating from the mobile device, and after a determination that the first request originated from an Internet Protocol (IP) address associated with an IP address range representative of devices on a cellular network, service the first request, generate a data association, request the media from an Internet media provider identified in the first request, and cause transmission of the media to the mobile device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2022Publication date: December 29, 2022Inventors: Achilleas Papakostas, Michael Andrew Yonker
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Patent number: 11438429Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus to monitor mobile Internet activity are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, and processor circuitry to execute instructions to at least assign (i) a first port of a proxy server to a first mobile device associated with a first panelist and (ii) a second port of the proxy server to a second mobile device associated with a second panelist, in response to receiving an un-authenticated request for media from at least one of the first, second, or third mobile devices, service the un-authenticated request in response to determining that the un-authenticated request is from an Internet Protocol (IP) address associated with an IP address range representative of devices on a cellular network, and, in response to servicing the un-authenticated request via the first port, store an association between the media and first panelist demographic information associated with the first mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2021Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLCInventors: Achilleas Papakostas, Michael Andrew Yonker
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Publication number: 20210218820Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus to monitor mobile Internet activity are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, and processor circuitry to execute instructions to at least assign (i) a first port of a proxy server to a first mobile device associated with a first panelist and (ii) a second port of the proxy server to a second mobile device associated with a second panelist, in response to receiving an un-authenticated request for media from at least one of the first, second, or third mobile devices, service the un-authenticated request in response to determining that the un-authenticated request is from an Internet Protocol (IP) address associated with an IP address range representative of devices on a cellular network, and, in response to servicing the un-authenticated request via the first port, store an association between the media and first panelist demographic information associated with the first mobile device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2021Publication date: July 15, 2021Inventors: Achilleas Papakostas, Michael Andrew Yonker
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Patent number: 10965765Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus to monitor mobile Internet activity are disclosed. An example system includes at least one processor, and memory including instructions, when executed, cause the at least one processor to in response to obtaining first panelist demographic information associated with a first panelist and second panelist demographic information associated with a second panelist, assign a first port of a proxy server to a first mobile device associated with the first panelist and a second port of the proxy server to a second mobile device associated with the second panelist, the first port different from the second port, transmit configuration information to the first mobile device to instruct the first mobile device to transmit requests for media including a first request to the first port, and in response to obtaining the first request at the first port, store an association between the first panelist demographic information and the media.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2019Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLCInventors: Achilleas Papakostas, Michael Andrew Yonker
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Publication number: 20190297156Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus to monitor mobile Internet activity are disclosed. An example system includes at least one processor, and memory including instructions, when executed, cause the at least one processor to in response to obtaining first panelist demographic information associated with a first panelist and second panelist demographic information associated with a second panelist, assign a first port of a proxy server to a first mobile device associated with the first panelist and a second port of the proxy server to a second mobile device associated with the second panelist, the first port different from the second port, transmit configuration information to the first mobile device to instruct the first mobile device to transmit requests for media including a first request to the first port, and in response to obtaining the first request at the first port, store an association between the first panelist demographic information and the media.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2019Publication date: September 26, 2019Inventors: Achilleas Papakostas, Michael Andrew Yonker
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Patent number: 10320925Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus to monitor mobile Internet activity are disclosed. An example method comprises assigning a port of a proxy to the mobile device associated with a panelist. A property list file is transmitted to the mobile device, the property list file instructing the mobile device to transmit future requests for media to the port of the first proxy. A first request for media is received on the port of the proxy, the first request originating from the mobile device. The first request for media is associated with a demographic of the panelist associated with the mobile device based on an identifier of the port.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2014Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLCInventors: Achilleas Papakostas, Michael Andrew Yonker
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Patent number: 9736136Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus to monitor mobile Internet activity are disclosed. An example method comprises determining if a media request originated from a desktop computer or a mobile device by inspecting a user agent identifier of the media request. The media request is blocked if the media request originated from the desktop computer, the blocking to prevent the media request originating from the desktop computer from affecting a media exposure monitoring result. If the media request originated from the mobile device, an identifier of the media requested by the media request in association with the mobile device is stored.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2014Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLCInventors: Achilleas Papakostas, Michael Andrew Yonker
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Patent number: 9355138Abstract: Example audience measurement methods disclosed herein include accessing demographic information and identification information for subscribers of a service provider based on first data received from an audience measurement entity. Such disclosed example methods also include accessing network log data stored by the service provider for the subscribers using the identification information. Such disclosed example methods further include determining audience measurement data for the subscribers based on the network log data, the demographic information and the identification information, and removing the identification information from the audience measurement data to determine anonymous audience measurement data to send to the audience measurement entity.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2014Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLCInventors: Kevin Michael Hannan, Achilleas Papakostas, Albert Ronald Perez, Michael Andrew Yonker, Austin William Albino
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Patent number: 9307418Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus to monitor mobile Internet activity are disclosed. An example method comprises determining, with a processor, whether a device is communicatively coupled to a WiFi network, the WiFi network identified by a Service Set Identifier. Whether proxy settings are configured on the device in association with the WiFi network is identified. Registration information is transmitted from the device to a registrar if the proxy settings are not configured, the registration information comprising a classification of the WiFi network and the Service Set Identifier. The proxy settings of the WiFi network are configured based on instructions received from the registrar, the instructions to cause the device to transmit network communications using the proxy settings when communicatively coupled to the WiFi network.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2013Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: The Nielson Company (US), LLCInventors: Achilleas Papakostas, Michael Andrew Yonker
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Publication number: 20150081704Abstract: Example audience measurement methods disclosed herein include accessing demographic information and identification information for subscribers of a service provider based on first data received from an audience measurement entity. Such disclosed example methods also include accessing network log data stored by the service provider for the subscribers using the identification information. Such disclosed example methods further include determining audience measurement data for the subscribers based on the network log data, the demographic information and the identification information, and removing the identification information from the audience measurement data to determine anonymous audience measurement data to send to the audience measurement entity.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2014Publication date: March 19, 2015Inventors: Kevin Michael Hannan, Achilleas Papakostas, Albert Ronald Perez, Michael Andrew Yonker, Austin William Albino
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Publication number: 20150067162Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus to monitor mobile Internet activity are disclosed. An example method comprises assigning a port of a proxy to the mobile device associated with a panelist. A property list file is transmitted to the mobile device, the property list file instructing the mobile device to transmit future requests for media to the port of the first proxy. A first request for media is received on the port of the proxy, the first request originating from the mobile device. The first request for media is associated with a demographic of the panelist associated with the mobile device based on an identifier of the port.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2014Publication date: March 5, 2015Inventors: Achilleas Papakostas, Michael Andrew Yonker
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Publication number: 20150058958Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus to monitor mobile Internet activity are disclosed. An example method comprises determining if a media request originated from a desktop computer or a mobile device by inspecting a user agent identifier of the media request. The media request is blocked if the media request originated from the desktop computer, the blocking to prevent the media request originating from the desktop computer from affecting a media exposure monitoring result. If the media request originated from the mobile device, an identifier of the media requested by the media request in association with the mobile device is stored.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2014Publication date: February 26, 2015Inventors: Achilleas Papakostas, Michael Andrew Yonker
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Patent number: 8910259Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus to monitor mobile Internet activity are disclosed. An example method comprises determining if an application identified by an identifier of a content request from a client device supports authentication; transmitting content identified by the content request to the client device if the identifier of the content request identifies an application that supports authentication; and storing an identifier of the content requested by the content request in association with the client device.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2010Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLCInventors: Achilleas Papakostas, Michael Andrew Yonker
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Patent number: 8903864Abstract: Methods and apparatus to obtain anonymous audience measurement data from network server data for particular demographic and usage profiles are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2012Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLCInventors: Kevin Michael Hannan, Achilleas Papakostas, Albert Ronald Perez, Michael Andrew Yonker, Austin William Albino
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Patent number: 8886773Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus to monitor mobile Internet activity are disclosed. An example method comprises receiving a request for Internet content on a port of a proxy, the request originating from a mobile device transmitting requests via a cellular wireless access point; associating the request for Internet content with a mobile device based on the first port; requesting content from an Internet content provider identified in the request for Internet content, the Internet content provider being different than the proxy; and transmitting the content.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2010Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLCInventors: Achilleas Papakostas, Michael Andrew Yonker
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Publication number: 20140036687Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus to monitor mobile Internet activity are disclosed. An example method comprises determining, with a processor, whether a device is communicatively coupled to a WiFi network, the WiFi network identified by a Service Set Identifier. Whether proxy settings are configured on the device in association with the WiFi network is identified. Registration information is transmitted from the device to a registrar if the proxy settings are not configured, the registration information comprising a classification of the WiFi network and the Service Set Identifier. The proxy settings of the WiFi network are configured based on instructions received from the registrar, the instructions to cause the device to transmit network communications using the proxy settings when communicatively coupled to the WiFi network.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2013Publication date: February 6, 2014Inventors: Achilleas Papakostas, Michael Andrew Yonker
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Publication number: 20130036435Abstract: Methods and apparatus to obtain anonymous audience measurement data from network server data for particular demographic and usage profiles are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2012Publication date: February 7, 2013Inventors: Kevin Michael Hannan, Achilleas Papakostas, Albert Ronald Perez, Michael Andrew Yonker, Austin William Albino