Patents by Inventor William Morris Harvey

William Morris Harvey 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: 20230078684
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to optimize projection of big data beyond its footprint. An example apparatus includes memory, instructions, and processor circuitry to access panel audience sizes corresponding to subscribers of a media provider, a subset of the subscribers of the media provider, and corresponding to a media network determine a relative percent difference between the third panel audience size and the fourth panel audience size, when the relative percent absolute difference satisfies a first threshold, determine percentages of demographic groups represented in the panel audience sizes, determine differences associated with the demographic groups, and when at least one of the differences corresponding to at least one of the demographic groups satisfies a second threshold, determine the subscribers, the subset of the subscribers, and the at least one of the demographic groups as useable to determine an audience size of the media network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: David J. Kurzynski, William Morris Harvey, Martin Richard Frankel, Yong Flannagan, Cermet Ream, Meghan LePage Beeman
  • Publication number: 20130006706
    Abstract: In various embodiments, strategies, tools and techniques are provided for using consumer purchaser behavior for targeting delivery of content to consumers through television and other media. An advertising measurement system, which may be accessible through a software-as-a-service model or a client-downloaded computer program, may be used to process and analyze data. The system may be configured to receive and process household media exposure data, product purchase data, advertising data, program data, and demographic data, wherein the data may be obtained from various sources, including from a program delivery source (e.g., a television set-top box) located in a household of a consumer. Data may be collected from a variety of people identification tools for analyzing the identities of one or more people viewing content delivered on a program delivery source. Data may also be collected from various types of metering devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2012
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: TRA, Inc.
    Inventors: William Morris Harvey, Gerald Leo Despain, Mark Lieberman, Brian P. Canning, Pavel Bochman
  • Patent number: 8112301
    Abstract: In various embodiments, strategies, tools and techniques are provided for using consumer purchaser behavior for targeting delivery of content to consumers through television and other media. An advertising measurement system, which may be accessible through a software-as-a-service model or a client-downloaded computer program, may be used to process and analyze data. The system may be configured to receive and process household media exposure data, product purchase data, advertising data, program data, and demographic data, wherein the data may be obtained from various sources, including from a program delivery source (e.g., a television set-top box) located in a household of a consumer. Data may be collected from a variety of people identification tools for analyzing the identities of one or more people viewing content delivered on a program delivery source. Data may also be collected from various types of metering devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Tra, Inc.
    Inventors: William Morris Harvey, Gerald Leo Despain, Mark Lieberman, Brian P. Canning, Pavel Bochman
  • Publication number: 20110288907
    Abstract: In various embodiments, strategies, tools and techniques are provided for using consumer purchaser behavior for targeting delivery of content to consumers through television and other media. An advertising measurement system, which may be accessible through a software-as-a-service model or a client-downloaded computer program, may be used to process and analyze data. The system may be configured to receive and process household media exposure data, product purchase data, advertising data, program data, and demographic data, wherein the data may be obtained from various sources, including from a program delivery source (e.g., a television set-top box) located in a household of a consumer. Data may be collected from a variety of people identification tools for analyzing the identities of one or more people viewing content delivered on a program delivery source. Data may also be collected from various types of metering devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: TRA, Inc.
    Inventors: William Morris Harvey, Gerald Leo Despain, Mark Lieberman, Brian P. Canning, Pavel Bochman
  • Patent number: 8000993
    Abstract: In various embodiments, strategies, tools and techniques are provided for processing and analyzing data in an advertising measurement system accessible through a software-as-a-service model or a client-downloaded computer program. The system may be configured to receive and process household media exposure data, product purchase data, advertising data, program data, and demographic data, wherein the data may be obtained from various sources, including from a program delivery source (e.g., a television set-top box) located in a household of a consumer. The data may be matched and cross-correlated for calculating return on advertising investment measurements and other metrics. The data may be used to optimize media placement generally or to address advertising content to specific households. Methods for storing and accessing data in the advertising measurement system by distributing the data across multiple shards are also provided. In addition, methods for protecting privacy of communicated data are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: TRA, Inc.
    Inventors: William Morris Harvey, Gerald Leo Despain, Mark Lieberman, Brian P. Canning, Pavel Bochman
  • Publication number: 20100161492
    Abstract: In various embodiments, strategies, tools and techniques are provided for processing and analyzing data in an advertising measurement system accessible through a software-as-a-service model or a client-downloaded computer program. The system may be configured to receive and process household media exposure data, product purchase data, advertising data, program data, and demographic data, wherein the data may be obtained from various sources, including from a program delivery source (e.g., a television set-top box) located in a household of a consumer. The data may be matched and cross-correlated for calculating return on advertising investment measurements and other metrics. The data may be used to optimize media placement generally or to address advertising content to specific households. Methods for storing and accessing data in the advertising measurement system by distributing the data across multiple shards are also provided. In addition, methods for protecting privacy of communicated data are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2009
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: TRA, Inc.
    Inventors: William Morris Harvey, Gerald Leo Despain, Mark Lieberman, Brian P. Canning, Pavel Bochman
  • Patent number: 7729940
    Abstract: In various embodiments, strategies, tools and techniques are provided for processing and analyzing data in an advertising measurement system accessible through a software-as-a-service model or a client-downloaded computer program. The system may be configured to receive and process household media exposure data, product purchase data, advertising data, program data, and demographic data, wherein the data may be obtained from various sources, including from a program delivery source (e.g., a television set-top box) located in a household of a consumer. The data may be matched and cross-correlated for calculating return on advertising investment measurements and other metrics. The data may be used to optimize media placement generally or to address advertising content to specific households. Methods for storing data in the advertising measurement system by distributing the data across multiple shards are also provided. In addition, methods for protecting privacy of communicated data are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: TRA, Inc.
    Inventors: William Morris Harvey, Gerald Leo Despain, Mark Lieberman, Brian P. Canning, Pavel Bochman
  • Publication number: 20090259518
    Abstract: In various embodiments, strategies, tools and techniques are provided for processing and analyzing data in an advertising measurement system accessible through a software-as-a-service model or a client-downloaded computer program. The system may be configured to receive and process household media exposure data, product purchase data, advertising data, program data, and demographic data, wherein the data may be obtained from various sources, including from a program delivery source (e.g., a television set-top box) located in a household of a consumer. The data may be matched and cross-correlated for calculating return on advertising investment measurements and other metrics. The data may be used to optimize media placement generally or to address advertising content to specific households. Methods for storing data in the advertising measurement system by distributing the data across multiple shards are also provided. In addition, methods for protecting privacy of communicated data are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2008
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Applicant: TRA, Inc.
    Inventors: William Morris Harvey, Gerald Leo Despain, Mark Lieberman, Brian P. Canning, Pavel Bochman