Patents by Inventor Peter Campbell Doe

Peter Campbell Doe 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: 11843828
    Abstract: Disclosed example audience measurement apparatus determine a first audience metric based on set-top box return path tuning data obtained from set-top boxes located in a first geographic area; determine a second audience metric from a portion of audience measurement data corresponding to a second geographic area, the portion of the audience measurement data associated with monitored sites in the second geographic area having second set-top box characteristics that correspond with first set-top box characteristics of the set-top boxes located in the first geographic area; determine ratios of (i) respective first audience metrics determined for respective demographic stratifications to (ii) corresponding second audience metrics determined for the respective demographic stratifications; and combine the ratios after multiplication with third audience metrics determined, for the respective demographic stratifications, from the audience measurement data to determine an audience exposure metric that estimates exposur
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventor: Peter Campbell Doe
  • Publication number: 20230325858
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to project ratings for future broadcasts of media. Disclosed example methods include normalizing, with a processor, audience measurement data corresponding to media exposure data, social media exposure data and programming information associated with a future quarter to determine normalized audience measurement data. Disclosed example methods also include classifying a media asset based on the programming information to determine a media asset classification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Jingsong Cui, Peter Campbell Doe, Scott Sereday
  • Publication number: 20230199249
    Abstract: Disclosed example audience measurement apparatus determine a first audience metric based on set-top box return path tuning data obtained from set-top boxes located in a first geographic area; determine a second audience metric from a portion of audience measurement data corresponding to a second geographic area, the portion of the audience measurement data associated with monitored sites in the second geographic area having second set-top box characteristics that correspond with first set-top box characteristics of the set-top boxes located in the first geographic area; determine ratios of (i) respective first audience metrics determined for respective demographic stratifications to (ii) corresponding second audience metrics determined for the respective demographic stratifications; and combine the ratios after multiplication with third audience metrics determined, for the respective demographic stratifications, from the audience measurement data to determine an audience exposure metric that estimates exposur
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventor: Peter Campbell Doe
  • Patent number: 11657413
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to project ratings for future broadcasts of media. Disclosed example methods include normalizing, with a processor, audience measurement data corresponding to media exposure data, social media exposure data and programming information associated with a future quarter to determine normalized audience measurement data. Disclosed example methods also include classifying a media asset based on the programming information to determine a media asset classification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Jingsong Cui, Peter Campbell Doe, Scott Sereday
  • Patent number: 11496799
    Abstract: Disclosed example audience measurement apparatus determine a first audience metric based on set-top box return path tuning data obtained from set-top boxes located in a first geographic area; determine a second audience metric from a portion of audience measurement data corresponding to a second geographic area, the portion of the audience measurement data associated with monitored sites in the second geographic area having second set-top box characteristics that correspond with first set-top box characteristics of the set-top boxes located in the first geographic area; determine ratios of (i) respective first audience metrics determined for respective demographic stratifications to (ii) corresponding second audience metrics determined for the respective demographic stratifications; and combine the ratios after multiplication with third audience metrics determined, for the respective demographic stratifications, from the audience measurement data to determine an audience exposure metric that estimates exposur
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventor: Peter Campbell Doe
  • Publication number: 20220070530
    Abstract: Disclosed example audience measurement apparatus determine a first audience metric based on set-top box return path tuning data obtained from set-top boxes located in a first geographic area; determine a second audience metric from a portion of audience measurement data corresponding to a second geographic area, the portion of the audience measurement data associated with monitored sites in the second geographic area having second set-top box characteristics that correspond with first set-top box characteristics of the set-top boxes located in the first geographic area; determine ratios of (i) respective first audience metrics determined for respective demographic stratifications to (ii) corresponding second audience metrics determined for the respective demographic stratifications; and combine the ratios after multiplication with third audience metrics determined, for the respective demographic stratifications, from the audience measurement data to determine an audience exposure metric that estimates exposur
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventor: Peter Campbell Doe
  • Patent number: 11128905
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to perform identity matching across audience measurement systems are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Sullivan, Peter Campbell Doe, Edmond Wong
  • Patent number: 11089361
    Abstract: Disclosed example audience measurement apparatus determine a first audience metric based on set-top box return path tuning data obtained from set-top boxes located in a first geographic area; determine a second audience metric from a portion of audience measurement data corresponding to a second geographic area, the portion of the audience measurement data associated with monitored sites in the second geographic area having second set-top box characteristics that correspond with first set-top box characteristics of the set-top boxes located in the first geographic area; determine ratios of (i) respective first audience metrics determined for respective demographic stratifications to (ii) corresponding second audience metrics determined for the respective demographic stratifications; and combine the ratios after multiplication with third audience metrics determined, for the respective demographic stratifications, from the audience measurement data to determine an audience exposure metric that estimates exposur
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventor: Peter Campbell Doe
  • Publication number: 20210174381
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to project ratings for future broadcasts of media. Disclosed example methods include normalizing, with a processor, audience measurement data corresponding to media exposure data, social media exposure data and programming information associated with a future quarter to determine normalized audience measurement data. Disclosed example methods also include classifying a media asset based on the programming information to determine a media asset classification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Jingsong Cui, Peter Campbell Doe, Scott Sereday
  • Publication number: 20210084370
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining delivery data, wherein the delivery data identifies a plurality of addressable objects to which media content has been delivered; obtaining research sample data, wherein the research sample data identifies, for each of a plurality of households, one or more household member characteristics associated with one or more members of the household who are assessed as having viewed the media content; selecting, as a target characteristic, a particular household member characteristic; and determining, based upon the delivery data and the research sample data, a numerical count, the numerical count being determined as an estimated number of viewers who had viewed the media content that had been delivered to the plurality of addressable objects and who have the target characteristic. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Applicant: Xandr Inc.
    Inventor: Peter Campbell Doe
  • Publication number: 20210056591
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying an initial set of content schedule constraints including an initial plurality of values for two or more of price, available inventory, target audience, media content, number of impressions, placement dates, and placement times; generating a preliminary advertising schedule based on the initial set of content schedule constraints; calculating reach and average frequency based on the preliminary advertising schedule, resulting in a first calculated reach and a first calculated average frequency; updating one or more of the initial plurality of values of the initial set of content schedule constraints based on the first calculated reach and the first calculated average frequency, the updating resulting in an updated set of content schedule constraints, the updated set of content schedule constraints having one or more values of only some constituent content schedule constraints thereof differ from one or more values of corresponding content
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: Xandr Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Campbell Doe, Marco A. Montes de Oca
  • Publication number: 20200404352
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to perform identity matching across audience measurement systems are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Jonathan Sullivan, Peter Campbell Doe, Edmond Wong
  • Patent number: 10867308
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to project ratings for future broadcasts of media. Disclosed example methods include normalizing, with a processor, audience measurement data corresponding to media exposure data, social media exposure data and programming information associated with a future quarter to determine normalized audience measurement data. Disclosed example methods also include classifying a media asset based on the programming information to determine a media asset classification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Jingsong Cui, Peter Campbell Doe, Scott Sereday
  • Patent number: 10771829
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to perform identity matching across audience measurement systems are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Sullivan, Peter Campbell Doe, Edmond Wong
  • Publication number: 20200265461
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to improve reach calculation efficiency. An example method includes estimating, with a processor, a sample distribution of marketing data to generate a maximum entropy distribution, generating, with the processor, a geometric distribution based on estimating a minimum cross entropy of (a) the maximum entropy distribution and (b) the sample distribution of marketing data, and improving calculation efficiency of the public reach of the sample distribution of marketing data by generating, with the processor, conserved quantity expressions of the geometric distribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Sheppard, Jonathan Sullivan, Peter Lipa, Peter Campbell Doe, Paul Donato
  • Publication number: 20200177954
    Abstract: Disclosed example audience measurement apparatus determine a first audience metric based on set-top box return path tuning data obtained from set-top boxes located in a first geographic area; determine a second audience metric from a portion of audience measurement data corresponding to a second geographic area, the portion of the audience measurement data associated with monitored sites in the second geographic area having second set-top box characteristics that correspond with first set-top box characteristics of the set-top boxes located in the first geographic area; determine ratios of (i) respective first audience metrics determined for respective demographic stratifications to (ii) corresponding second audience metrics determined for the respective demographic stratifications; and combine the ratios after multiplication with third audience metrics determined, for the respective demographic stratifications, from the audience measurement data to determine an audience exposure metric that estimates exposur
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventor: Peter Campbell Doe
  • Patent number: 10560740
    Abstract: Disclosed example audience measurement apparatus include first estimator means for determining a first audience metric based on set-top box return path tuning data obtained from a plurality of set-top boxes located in a first geographic area, second estimator means for determining a second audience metric from a portion of audience measurement data corresponding to a second geographic area different from the first geographic area, the portion of the audience measurement data associated with monitored sites in the second geographic area having second set-top box characteristics that correspond with first set-top box characteristics of the plurality of set-top boxes located in the first geographic area, and third estimator means for (i) determining a ratio of the first audience metric to the second audience metric, and (ii) processing the audience measurement data based on the ratio to determine an audience exposure metric estimating exposure to media in the first geographic area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventor: Peter Campbell Doe
  • Patent number: 10504138
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to improve reach calculation efficiency. An example method includes estimating, with a processor, a sample distribution of marketing data to generate a maximum entropy distribution, generating, with the processor, a geometric distribution based on estimating a minimum cross entropy of (a) the maximum entropy distribution and (b) the sample distribution of marketing data, and improving calculation efficiency of the public reach of the sample distribution of marketing data by generating, with the processor, conserved quantity expressions of the geometric distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC
    Inventors: Michael Sheppard, Jonathan Sullivan, Peter Lipa, Peter Campbell Doe, Paul Donato
  • Publication number: 20190320214
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to perform identity matching across audience measurement systems are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Jonathan Sullivan, Peter Campbell Doe, Edmond Wong
  • Patent number: 10244278
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to perform identity matching across audience measurement systems are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Sullivan, Peter Campbell Doe, Edmond Wong