Patents by Inventor Sandeep Tapse
Sandeep Tapse 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: 11962848Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to identify an episode number based on fingerprint and matched viewing information are disclosed. An example method includes processing meter data to identify a presented media based on a bumper included in a media, filtering the meter data based on the identification of the media, selecting a candidate episode, the candidate episode not associated with a known episode label, determining whether the candidate episode appears sequentially after a known episode for a threshold number of presentation locations, and labeling the candidate episode as the next sequential episode after the known episode in response to determining that the candidate episode appears sequentially after the known episode for the threshold number of presentation locations.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLCInventors: James Petro, Sandeep Tapse, Albert T. Borawski
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Publication number: 20240106909Abstract: Example methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to facilitate meter to meter matching for media identification. Example apparatus disclosed herein include an unknown signature comparer, a stack counter, and a reference database updater. The unknown signature comparer is to select a candidate unknown signature segment meeting a threshold length from a set of unknown signature segments collected at a first audience measurement location, and compare individual signatures of the candidate unknown signature segment with a collection of unknown signature segments collected at a second audience measurement location. The stack counter is to count a number of times that the candidate unknown signature segment matches unknown signature segments in the collection, and identify the candidate unknown signature segment as a matched signature segment when the number of times meets a counter threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: The Nielsen Company (US), LLCInventors: Sandeep Tapse, Daniel Nelson
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Publication number: 20240089533Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to identify an episode number based on fingerprint and matched viewing information are disclosed. An example method includes processing meter data to identify a presented media based on a bumper included in a media, filtering the meter data based on the identification of the media, selecting a candidate episode, the candidate episode not associated with a known episode label, determining whether the candidate episode appears sequentially after a known episode for a threshold number of presentation locations, and labeling the candidate episode as the next sequential episode after the known episode in response to determining that the candidate episode appears sequentially after the known episode for the threshold number of presentation locations.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: The Nielsen Company (US), LLCInventors: James Petro, Sandeep Tapse, Albert T. Borawski
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Publication number: 20240031617Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for identification of streaming activity and source for cached media on streaming devices. An example system stores, in a content identification information library, first content identification information of a first media presentation, wherein the first media presentation is a streamed media presentation; inspects a network connection of a media streaming device for network activity associated with a second media presentation; determine, in response to an absence of the network activity, the second media presentation is a cached media presentation; infers a streaming source of the second media presentation by matching second content identification information of the second media presentation with the first content identification information of the first media presentation; and generates a second media credit for the second media presentation that includes an inferred streaming source identifier.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: The Nielsen Company (US), LLCInventors: James Petro, Daniel Nelson, Sandeep Tapse
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Publication number: 20230412881Abstract: Methods and apparatus to generate reference signatures are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: The Nielsen Company (US), LLCInventors: Sandeep Tapse, Albert T. Borawski, Daniel Nelson
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Patent number: 11825159Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to identify an episode number based on fingerprint and matched viewing information are disclosed. An example method includes processing meter data to identify a presented media based on a bumper included in a media, filtering the meter data based on the identification of the media, selecting a candidate episode, the candidate episode not associated with a known episode label, determining whether the candidate episode appears sequentially after a known episode for a threshold number of presentation locations, and labeling the candidate episode as the next sequential episode after the known episode in response to determining that the candidate episode appears sequentially after the known episode for the threshold number of presentation locations.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2022Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLCInventors: James Petro, Sandeep Tapse, Albert T. Borawski
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Patent number: 11785105Abstract: Example methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to facilitate meter to meter matching for media identification. Example apparatus disclosed herein include an unknown signature comparer, a stack counter, and a reference database updater. The unknown signature comparer is to select a candidate unknown signature segment meeting a threshold length from a set of unknown signature segments collected at a first audience measurement location, and compare individual signatures of the candidate unknown signature segment with a collection of unknown signature segments collected at a second audience measurement location. The stack counter is to count a number of times that the candidate unknown signature segment matches unknown signature segments in the collection, and identify the candidate unknown signature segment as a matched signature segment when the number of times meets a counter threshold.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLCInventors: Sandeep Tapse, Daniel Nelson
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Patent number: 11778243Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for identification of streaming activity and source for cached media on streaming devices.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLCInventors: James Petro, Daniel Nelson, Sandeep Tapse
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Publication number: 20230247255Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to identify media sources are disclosed. Example apparatus disclosed herein include an exclusivity determiner, a unique asset identifier, and a signature matcher. The exclusivity determiner is to determine whether media is exclusive to a provider. The unique asset identifier is to associate a first signature of the media with the provider if the media is exclusive to the provider. The signature matcher is to identify the provider based on a second signature, the second signature matching the first signature, the second signature extracted from media presented at a media presentation location.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2023Publication date: August 3, 2023Inventors: Sandeep Tapse, Jason Olmsted, James Petro, Albert T. Borawski, Brian Fuhrer
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Patent number: 11716510Abstract: Methods and apparatus to generate reference signatures are disclosed. An example method includes collecting a first signature for media being presented to a plurality of households; crediting the media when the first signature matches a reference signature in a reference signature database; in response to determining that the first signature does not match a reference signature in the reference signature database and the first signature does not match an unidentified signature in an unknown signature database, storing the first signature in the unknown signature database; in response to determining that a second signature does not match the reference signature in the reference signature database and the second signature matches the unidentified signature in the unknown signature database, and increasing a count associated with the unidentified signature.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2022Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLCInventors: Sandeep Tapse, Albert T. Borawski, Daniel Nelson
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Publication number: 20230217069Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to perform dynamic media insertion based on streaming meter data. An example apparatus includes meter data management circuitry to obtain, via a network, streaming meter data from a plurality of streaming meter devices, the streaming meter data including streaming sessions detected by the plurality of streaming meter devices, meter data processor circuitry to identify active streaming sessions based on the streaming meter data, trend analyzer circuitry to generate a viewing trend indicator based on the active streaming sessions, and trend reporter circuitry to transmit the viewing trend indicator via a network.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2022Publication date: July 6, 2023Inventor: Sandeep Tapse
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Patent number: 11689764Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for loading and roll-off of reference media assets. Example apparatus disclosed herein are to determine whether a first condition to prune a reference media asset is satisfied, and in response to a determination that the first condition is satisfied, determine whether a second condition to prune the reference media asset is satisfied. Disclosed example apparatus are also to, in response to a determination that the second condition is satisfied: segment the reference media asset into a plurality of segments based on a length of the reference media asset, prune a first one of the segments, and retain a second one of the segments in a database to compare with meter data to credit media exposure associated with the reference media asset.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLCInventors: Sandeep Tapse, Daniel Nelson, Raghuram Ranganathan
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Publication number: 20230171465Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for loading and roll-off of reference media assets. Example apparatus disclosed herein are to determine whether a first condition to prune a reference media asset is satisfied, and in response to a determination that the first condition is satisfied, determine whether a second condition to prune the reference media asset is satisfied. Disclosed example apparatus are also to, in response to a determination that the second condition is satisfied: segment the reference media asset into a plurality of segments based on a length of the reference media asset, prune a first one of the segments, and retain a second one of the segments in a database to compare with meter data to credit media exposure associated with the reference media asset.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2021Publication date: June 1, 2023Inventors: Sandeep Tapse, Daniel Nelson, Raghuram Ranganathan
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Publication number: 20230094865Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to validate reference media assets in media identification systems. Example apparatus disclosed herein are to identify respective instances of media represented by corresponding candidate media resources to be verified, and cause the respective instances of media to be presented and monitored by corresponding ones of a plurality of virtual machines. Disclosed example apparatus are also to perform a comparison of a first one of the candidate media resources to a corresponding test media resource generated by a first one of the virtual machines that played and monitored a first one of the instances of media represented by the first one of the candidate media resources. Disclosed example apparatus are further to validate the first one of the candidate media resources based on the comparison.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventor: Sandeep Tapse
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Publication number: 20230087758Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to accurately credit streaming sessions are disclosed. A meter device records streaming session information. Cluster creation circuitry trains a model by grouping information from multiple streaming sessions into clusters, wherein all streaming sessions within a given cluster have matching media and streaming sources. Model executor circuitry assigns incoming streaming session information to a cluster or to noise. Cluster creation circuitry edits the model by creating new clusters out of information from multiple streaming sessions with similar attributes that were originally labeled as noise. By only crediting streaming session information assigned to a cluster, the disclosed system avoids crediting illogical streaming session information, such as the crediting of media to a streaming source that does not offer said media.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2021Publication date: March 23, 2023Inventors: Sandeep Tapse, James Petro, Shruthi Rao, Spoorthi Ramakanth Deshmukh, Raghuram Ranganathan, David Howell Wright
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Publication number: 20230064916Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to identify an episode number based on fingerprint and matched viewing information are disclosed. An example method includes processing meter data to identify a presented media based on a bumper included in a media, filtering the meter data based on the identification of the media, selecting a candidate episode, the candidate episode not associated with a known episode label, determining whether the candidate episode appears sequentially after a known episode for a threshold number of presentation locations, and labeling the candidate episode as the next sequential episode after the known episode in response to determining that the candidate episode appears sequentially after the known episode for the threshold number of presentation locations.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Inventors: James Petro, Sandeep Tapse, Albert T. Borawski
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Patent number: 11558661Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to identify media sources are disclosed. Example apparatus disclosed herein include an exclusivity determiner, a unique asset identifier, and a signature matcher. The exclusivity determiner is to determine whether media is exclusive to a provider. The unique asset identifier is to associate a first signature of the media with the provider if the media is exclusive to the provider. The signature matcher is to identify the provider based on a second signature, the second signature matching the first signature, the second signature extracted from media presented at a media presentation location.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2021Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLCInventors: Sandeep Tapse, Jason Olmsted, James Petro, Albert T. Borawski, Brian Fuhrer
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Publication number: 20230005014Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to reduce false crediting from delayed reference sites. An apparatus includes memory, computer readable instructions, and a processor to execute instructions to generate a list of first media resources mapped to durations of time, the first media resources having corresponding monitored timestamps, the first media resources to represent monitored media exposure, generate a mapping of the durations of time to percentages of total media exposure, the total media exposure corresponds to a sum of the durations of time, determine, based on the mapping, a group of the first media resources that correspond to a threshold percentage of the total media exposure, and determine whether to execute a media crediting process based on whether the group of the first media resources have first timestamps corresponding second timestamps of second media resources stored in memory, the second media resources represent reference media sources.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2021Publication date: January 5, 2023Inventor: Sandeep Tapse
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Publication number: 20230004628Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to credit unidentified media are disclosed. Disclosed example apparatus include a database updater to store a first group of signatures representative of unidentified media in a database, the first group of signatures obtained from a first media meter to monitor a first media presentation device, the first group of signatures associated with a first media exposure category based on media source information reported by the first media meter. Disclosed example apparatus also include a media comparator to compare a second group of signatures with the first group of signatures, the second group of signatures obtained from a second media meter to monitor a second media presentation device. Disclosed example apparatus further include a reporter to credit media exposure represented by the second group of signatures to the first media exposure category when the second group of signatures matches the first group of signatures.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2021Publication date: January 5, 2023Inventors: James Petro, Daniel Nelson, Raghuram Ranganathan, Sandeep Tapse
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Publication number: 20220400298Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for identification of streaming activity and source for cached media on streaming devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2022Publication date: December 15, 2022Inventors: James Petro, Daniel Nelson, Sandeep Tapse