Audience Survey Or Program Distribution Use Accounting Patents (Class 455/2.01)
  • Patent number: 11895203
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed that collect media metrics on computing devices. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, instructions in the apparatus, and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to determine a permission level of a meter and, in response to the determination, request a permission to access media data of an application programming interface (API), in response to determining a media session notification is available as indicated by the API, package media session data associated with the media session notification, the media session data extracted from metadata of the media session notification, obtain foreground information; and generate a package of metrics, the package of metrics including the packaged media session data and the foreground information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Travis Berthelot, Sanjeev Kumar Viswambharan, Pararth Mehta, Pankaj Bengani
  • Patent number: 11880780
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems to determine a conditional probability based on audience member probability distributions for media audience measurement are disclosed. Disclosed example methods for media audience measurement include determining a first audience probability distribution for a first member of a household and determining a second audience probability distribution for a second member of the household. Disclosed example methods also include calculating probabilities for audience combinations of the first member and the second member of the household based on the first audience probability distribution and the second audience probability distribution. Disclosed example methods further include determining a household audience characteristic probability based on the calculated probabilities of the audience combinations of the household. The household audience characteristic indicates likelihoods of different possible audience compositions of the household for a media event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Michael Sheppard, Paul Donato, Peter C. Doe
  • Patent number: 11877027
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to determine the number of people at a location. An example apparatus includes a configuration changer to change a configuration setting of the base station to cause mobile devices to register with the base station, a registration manager to respond to registration requests received from the mobile devices after the configuration setting is changed by storing device identification information for the corresponding mobile devices, and a counter controller to identify a number of the mobile devices at a location of the base station based on the stored device identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Ranney Harrold Fry, Mark Richard Cave
  • Patent number: 11836864
    Abstract: Surroundings data, relating to at least one surrounding area in the surroundings of a motor vehicle situated in a field of vision of a vehicle occupant, are obtained by a sensor system of the motor vehicle. At least one piece of information, which needs to be output to the user, is provided by an information source. The information is at least partially overlaid on a display of the surrounding area by a display device with the type of information presentation and/or the position at, and/or the orientation in, which the information presentation is visualized being dependent on the surroundings data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Marcus Kuehne, Daniel Profendiner, Nils Wollny
  • Patent number: 11722589
    Abstract: A computing device functions as a member of a distributed database system implemented using a wireless network. A member version of a chain graph is stored at the computing device. The chain graph includes events created by the computing device and events received through the wireless network from other computing devices that are members of the distributed database system. The computing device determines if it is a member of a voting committee that comprises only a subset of the computing devices that are members of the distributed database system. When the computing device is a member of a voting committee, it participates in a distributed consensus algorithm with other members of the voting committee using the wireless network to define an order of the events in the chain graph and stores that order as a new event in the member version of the chain graph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wen Tong, Sheng Sun
  • Patent number: 11711576
    Abstract: Example apparatus disclosed herein are to determine a location of a portable device based on location data collected by the portable device, determine whether a person is within a threshold distance of the portable device based on proximity data collected by the portable device, and, when the person is determined to be within the threshold distance of the portable device: (i) infer at least one of a presence or an absence of the person in a media exposure environment based on the location of the portable device, (ii) determine a confidence level that the person corresponds to a member of the panelist household, and (iii) determine an accuracy of presence information collected by a people meter based on the confidence level and the inference of the at least one of the presence or the absence of the person, the people meter different than the portable device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Padmanabhan Soundararajan, Venugopal Srinivasan, Alexander Topchy
  • Patent number: 11689758
    Abstract: An addressable asset system (100) includes user equipment devices (UEDs) (102), a cloud decisioning system (CDS) (106) and a business data management system (BDMS) (108). The BDMS (108) collects information that is used by the CDS (106) to manage delivery of assets by the UEDs (102). In an exemplary network architecture, the CDS (106) is independent of the network insertion and delivery equipment. In particular, the broadcast content stream is delivered to the UED (102) by a digital content management(DCM) system (110) and certain assets are separately delivered to the UED (102) by the asset download network (AND) (112). This allows the CDS (106) to remain independent of the network of the UED (102) such that the CDS (106) can operate across networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: INVIDI TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daniel C. Wilson, Bruce J. Anderson, Alden Lloyd Peterson, II, Howard Fiderer
  • Patent number: 11664095
    Abstract: The Mavin systems and computer-implemented processes of the invention analyze, score, and report the results from Likert scale survey questions. The systems and methods address three weaknesses in traditional Likert scale analyses by providing: (1) a scoring procedure that is sensitive to all levels of response; (2) a determination and designation of a standard score used to determine whether the results meet that standard; and (3) a scoring process used to determine the degree to which a given score exceeds or fails to meet this standard. In addition, the Mavin systems and methods support recalculation and adjustment to the scoring model when available data support such adjustments. Further, the Mavin systems and methods incorporate flexible non-linear segment intervals and determine evidence-based adjusted response segment values to determine adjusted Mavin scores and provide actionable survey results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Inventor: Laurence Rudolph
  • Patent number: 11652867
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for ingesting and presenting a video with associated linked products and metadata as a unified actionable shopping experience may include accessing a video file, receiving information about an object, the information including a link to a merchant portal or web page through which the object may be purchased, combining the video file and information about the object into a social media post, and delivering the social media post to consumers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: rewardStyle, Inc.
    Inventors: William Kress Bodin, Baxter Murrell Box, Joseph Patrick Copenhaver
  • Patent number: 11609962
    Abstract: Methods of and systems for dynamically rearranging search results into hierarchically organized concept clusters are provided. A method of searching for and presenting content items as an arrangement of conceptual clusters to facilitate further search and navigation on a display-constrained device includes providing a set of content items and receiving incremental input to incrementally identify search terms for content items. Content items are selected and grouped into sets based on how the incremental input matches various metadata associated with the content items. The selected content items are grouped into explicit conceptual clusters and user-implied conceptual clusters based on metadata in common to the selected content items. The clustered content items are presented according to the conceptual clusters into which they are grouped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Veveo, Inc.
    Inventors: Sashikumar Venkataraman, Pankaj Garg, Pranav Rajanala
  • Patent number: 11570495
    Abstract: Example apparatus disclosed herein are to identify encoded information present in audio obtained for a time period. Disclosed example apparatus are also to generate a signature of the audio for comparison with signatures of reference media. Disclosed example apparatus are also to generate a first determination that a media presentation device was in an off state during a first portion of the time period based on a gain level applied by an automatic gain controller to collect the audio. Disclosed example apparatus are also to override the first determination that the media presentation device was in the off state during the first portion of the time period with a second determination that the media presentation device was in an on state during the first portion of the time period, the second determination based on at least one of the encoded information or the signature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Robert Stokes, Venugopal Srinivasan, Arun Ramaswamy, Daniel Nelson
  • Patent number: 11544742
    Abstract: A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may perform, for example, operations including determining a representative trajectory of a number of mobile devices relative to a media presentation device, such as a digital billboard. An audience of the number of mobile devices is identified and user characteristics are obtained of the audience. A representative interest of the audience is determined from the user characteristics of the audience, and a media content item is selected according to the representative interest and the representative trajectory. The media content item is presented at the media presentation device to expose the audience to the media content item. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Horst Juergen Schroeter
  • Patent number: 11502899
    Abstract: A method and technique for utilizing user feedback of product installation includes initiating, on a client computing system by a user, an install module of a product to install an instance of the product on the client computing system according to a default installation process. The install module interfaces with a server system and retrieves feedback data collected by the server system in connection with prior installations of the product. The install module creates a modified installation sequence for the product on the client computing system from the default installation process based on the retrieved feedback data and then installs the instance of the product on the client computing system according to the modified installation process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James D. Creasman, Kevin D. Dillard, Jeffrey K. Johnson, Barry J. Pellas, Matthew T. Pellas, Matthew K. Thomas, Paul A. Titus
  • Patent number: 11457059
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for ingesting and presenting a video with associated linked products and metadata as a unified actionable shopping experience may include accessing a video file, receiving information about an object, the information including a link to a merchant portal or web page through which the object may be purchased, combining the video file and information about the object into a social media post, and delivering the social media post to consumers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: rewardStyle, Inc.
    Inventors: William Kress Bodin, Baxter Murrell Box, Joseph Patrick Copenhaver
  • Patent number: 11450166
    Abstract: A portable electronic voting machine is provided. The portable electronic voting machine comprises a smart panel configured to display voting process information; and a base station configured to house the smart panel. The electronic voting machine is configured to have the smart panel be removable from the base station and store voting information selected while the smart panel is removed from the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Hart Intercivic, Inc.
    Inventors: James M. Canter, Philip J. Nathan, Edward Patrick Perez, Denton L. Simpson, Drew Eldridge Tinney
  • Patent number: 11379870
    Abstract: A graphical interface provides flexible configuration of campaigns with real-time visualization and click and drag operation. A user may filter input data describing their customer base and select analytical components upon which the campaign should analyze customers in order to produce a normalized line representing the potential campaign audience. The user may add breakpoints to the chart view in order to define reward segments, and associate offers with each reward segment. Creation of reward segments and assignment of offers may be performed with simple click operations, click and drag operations, or other interactions with the graphical interface. Reward segments may be vertical, horizontal, curve-based, or may be other shapes or arbitrarily drawn regions. A campaign defined by the GUI may be output by the system as a campaign dataset in various formats, with each format being usable to execute the associated campaign by identifying qualifying recipients and delivering corresponding offers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Roamina Inc.
    Inventor: James F. Hewitt, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11301525
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for processing information are provided. The method includes: determining at least one candidate factor, where the factor is a recommendation feature factor; retrieving a processing model, where the processing model is configured to determine a probability of accessing information by one or more users; in response to an incorporation of the candidate factor into the processing model, generating a first accessing probability of recommended information; determining a difference between the first accessing probability and an original accessing probability of the recommended information in association with the processing model; in response to the difference meeting a predetermined condition, converting the candidate factor into a formal factor; modifying the processing model by incorporating the formal factor; and determining target information, according to the modified processing model, for a delivery of the target information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Peili Lv
  • Patent number: 11216852
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automatically generating remarketing lists based on client sessions are provided. The system can include a visitor management module to identify client sessions established at a website. The visitor management module can determine node pairs including destination nodes and referrer nodes. The system can include a graph construction module to construct a graph including the node pairs and edges between the node pairs representing click-through rates. The system can include a graph clustering module to assign information resources to a first group based on one of i) a number of edges between the nodes and a conversion node or ii) click-through rates of node pairs including. The system includes a remarketing list generation module to assign the first group of information resources to a remarketing list. The remarketing list generation module can assign client identifiers that accessed the first group of information resources to the remarketing list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Bharath Pattabiraman, Ardian Poernomo
  • Patent number: 11197047
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for targeting of advertising content for a consumer product, by obtaining consumer demographic data, the consumer demographic data including a plurality of demographic attributes for each person; identifying a plurality of media slots; and obtaining program information for a respective identified program aired in each media slot among the plurality of media slots, the program information including viewing data of a plurality of viewing persons viewing the program and each viewing person being among the plurality of persons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: ADAP.TV, Inc.
    Inventors: Brendan Kitts, Dyng Au, Jon Borchardt
  • Patent number: 11190602
    Abstract: A communication method and a communications device, where the communication method includes: receiving a first message sent by a first service instance, where the first message includes a target identifier; and sending, based on the first message, a second message to a second service instance that has a binding relationship with the target identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zaifeng Zong, Fenqin Zhu
  • Patent number: 11164195
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include methods, systems and computer program products for predicting customer purchasing behavior. Aspects include receiving, from a sensor, first customer sensor data about a first customer in a store, wherein the first customer sensor data includes accompaniment data about one or more accompaniments of the first customer. A determination is made that the first customer is known based at least in part on the first customer sensor data. Based at least in part on determining that the first customer is known, a customer profile for the first customer is accessed, wherein the customer profile includes historical customer data. The accompaniment data and the customer profile are analyzed to determine a first sales strategy for the first customer. One or more sales techniques can be generated based on the sales strategy for the first customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: John E. Moore, Jr., Jeffrey K. Price, Robert R. Wentworth, Stanley C. Wood
  • Patent number: 11122134
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed that collect media metrics on computing devices. An example apparatus includes a permission collector to determine a permission level of a meter, and in response to the determination, request a permission to access media data of an application programming interface (API), a session identifier to determine if a media session notification is available, a session analyzer to, in response to determining the media session notification is available, package media session data associated with the media session notification, and a data manager communicatively coupled to the apparatus to obtain foreground information and parse the packaged media session data and the obtained foreground information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Travis Berthelot, Sanjeev Kumar Viswambharan, Pararth Mehta, Pankaj Bengani
  • Patent number: 11039204
    Abstract: Example methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture (i.e., physical storage media) to perform media source detection based on frequency band selection and processing are disclosed. Example meters disclosed herein are to compare a first audio signal from a monitored media device with a second audio signal from a first one of a plurality of media sources in communication with the monitored media device to determine a sequence of match results, the first audio signal associated with media presented by the media device. Disclosed example meters are also to compute a standard deviation of time delays associated with respective ones of the match results. Disclosed example meters are further to determine whether the first one of the media sources is a source of the media presented by the monitored media device based on the standard deviation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Marko Panger, Joe Kerkes, Joze Arh
  • Patent number: 10979754
    Abstract: Embodiments utilize viewership data collected via a set top box (STB) at individual households (HHs) to enable a network operator to recommend ad spots to customers based on a percentage of HHs that are likely to view the ad spots (e.g., the % of HHs reached by the ad spots), and/or based on the average number of times (e.g., average frequency) that the reached HHs are likely to view the ad spot. Embodiments compile the available network/daypart ad spots per broadcast week, and determine a number of ad spots for each network/daypart that satisfy a reached threshold of HHs, and/or satisfies the minimum frequency threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: CSC Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Nandhita Karunanithi, Colleen Moraghan, Dale Thomas, Eileen Cook, Paul Haddad, Wael Sabra
  • Patent number: 10937531
    Abstract: A computer-assisted method to provide timely multi-channel notification of treatments to healthcare providers and patients, the method including receiving de-identified longitudinal medical records, treatment prescription records of healthcare providers, and notification data. Relationships between the healthcare providers, the anonymized patients, and the notifications are identified using the de-identified longitudinal medical records, the treatment prescription records of the healthcare providers, and the notification data. An impact of notifications being received by both the healthcare provider for the anonymized patient and the anonymized patient on whether the anonymized patient received the treatment is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: IQVIA Inc.
    Inventors: Yunlong Wang, Emily Zhao, Yilian Yuan, Anthony Michael Wojeck, Robert Doyle, Yong Cai
  • Patent number: 10878450
    Abstract: A content provider specifies a content campaign along with a desired metric to achieve for the campaign, such as a budget. For each opportunity to present content to a user, an online publishing system selects content to a group of users using a selection process. To achieve the desired metric for the content campaign, the publishing system determines a probability of participating in the selection process with content from the content campaign based on feedback about the current performance of the campaign. For example, the system compares the opportunities passed and the budget spent for the content campaign to a current time and budget expenditure, and then it calculates an equilibrium probability that will achieve the desired budget at the end of the campaign. The system then determines whether to participate in a selection process for each new opportunity to present content using this adjusted equilibrium probability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Haining Wang, Perry Aaron Green
  • Patent number: 10862956
    Abstract: A server includes a first server configured to receive requests and a plurality of second servers configured to service requests. A method of client-server communication includes receiving, at the first server, a request from the client and allocating the request to one of the second servers. The server determines if the allocated second server can provide a response to the request within a predetermined time period. If the allocated second server cannot provide a response to the request within the predetermined time period it sends a reply to the client indicating when the server system can provide a response to the request and including an identifier of the allocated second server. Server generates a response to the request. Server receives a callback message from the client. Server sends the response to the client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: IDEMIA FRANCE
    Inventors: Sebastien Nerot, Rami Wehbi, Christian Sieng
  • Patent number: 10798467
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a method generates combinations of ad campaign content and media program campaign content and ranks the combinations of ad campaign content and media program content. The ranking is based on ad campaign content being shown with the media program campaign content. The method selects one or more of the combinations of ad campaign content and media program campaign content based on the ranking. Then, display of the one or more of the combinations of ad campaign content and media program campaign content is caused where the one or more of the combinations of ad campaign content and media program campaign content include ad campaign content shown with media program campaign content in a same area of a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: HULU, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Russell Kehler, Kang Kang, Jeff Beal, Chi Zhang, Zhebang Hua, Lutfi Ilke Kaya
  • Patent number: 10740790
    Abstract: Based on prior interactions associated with a user, an online system predicts an amount of interaction by the user with an object associated with an advertisement. Using the predicted amount of user interaction, the online system determines an expected value of presenting the advertisement to the user. The advertisement is ranked among other advertisements based on the expected values associated with the advertisements, and one or more advertisements are selected for presentation to the user based on the ranking. An advertisement may also specify a threshold amount of interaction with an associated object as targeting criteria, so the predicted amount of interaction with the object associated with the advertisement may determine if a user is eligible to be presented with the advertisement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Eitan Shay, Stuart Michael Bowers, Richard Bill Sim, Jun Yang
  • Patent number: 10743064
    Abstract: Systems and methods for measuring audience information of programs are described. Systems and methods for providing audience information to users of interactive television applications are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: David M. Berezowski, Michael D. Ellis
  • Patent number: 10735795
    Abstract: An addressable asset system (100) includes user equipment devices (UEDs) (102), a cloud decisioning system (CDS) (106) and a business data management system (BDMS) (108). The BDMS (108) collects information that is used by the CDS (106) to manage delivery of assets by the UEDs (102). In an exemplary network architecture, the CDS (106) is independent of the network insertion and delivery equipment. In particular, the broadcast content stream is delivered to the UED (102) by a digital content management (DCM) system (110) and certain assets are separately delivered to the UED (102) by the asset download network (ADN) (112). This allows the CDS (106) to remain independent of the network of the UED (102) such that the CDS (106) can operate across networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: INVIDI TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daniel C. Wilson, Bruce J. Anderson, Alden Lloyd Peterson, II, Howard Fiderer
  • Patent number: 10733998
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to identify sources of network streaming services are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a coding format identifier to identify, from a received first audio signal representing a decompressed second audio signal, an audio compression configuration used to compress a third audio signal to form the second audio signal, and a source identifier to identify a source of the second audio signal based on the identified audio compression configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Zafar Rafii, Markus Cremer, Bongjun Kim
  • Patent number: 10728702
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for networked data management using pedestrian traffic patterns. Data is collected from a plurality of mobile devices by one or more immobile devices. A traffic pattern is determined for a subset of the plurality of mobile devices. Interest level management and cluster analysis can be performed using the traffic pattern. Pausing by a mobile device, within the subset of the plurality of mobile devices, can be sensed. Direction of a gaze by an individual associated with the mobile device can be evaluated. A plurality of content messages is ranked, and one message is selected from the plurality of content messages as the content for pushing to the display. The content that is pushed can be defined using environmental information. Content is pushed to a display associated with the one or more immobile devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Changing Environments, Inc.
    Inventors: Sandra Yvonne Richter, Jutta Friedrichs, Katy Gero, Kenneth D Sebesta
  • Patent number: 10700900
    Abstract: The disclosure provides an electronic device, a method and computer-readable medium. The electronic device includes a circuitry. The circuitry is configured to receive a radio communication signal for another device. The circuitry is also configured to determine, based on the radio communication signal, one or more features that can reflect the difference between uplink transmission mode and downlink transmission mode. The circuitry is further configured to judge whether the radio communication signal is for uplink transmission or downlink transmission according to the feature(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Tsinghua University
    Inventors: Yu Rao, Wei Chen, Zhigang Cao, Xin Guo, Ryo Sawai, Ryota Kimura
  • Patent number: 10650238
    Abstract: Image processing of an image is used to determine the opportunity to view an object. Rather than relying on simple numbers passing an object, the opportunity to view the object is weighted based on attention, which is derived from other objects competing for attention. For the processor to more accurately determine opportunity to view as compared to using geometric information alone, a machine-learned network is used. To deal with changes in obstructions, another machine-learned network may extract obstructions from camera images. Trace data is used to allow for daily variation in base counts of viewers, allowing greater temporal resolution and determination based on information more recently acquired than counts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: BOOHMA TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventor: Shawn Spooner
  • Patent number: 10565627
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automatically generating remarketing lists based on client sessions are provided. The system can include a visitor management module to identify client sessions established at a website. The visitor management module can determine node pairs including destination nodes and referrer nodes. The system can include a graph construction module to construct a graph including the node pairs and edges between the node pairs representing click-through rates. The system can include a graph clustering module to assign information resources to a first group based on one of i) a number of edges between the nodes and a conversion node or ii) click-through rates of node pairs including. The system includes a remarketing list generation module to assign the first group of information resources to a remarketing list. The remarketing list generation module can assign client identifiers that accessed the first group of information resources to the remarketing list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Bharath Pattabiraman, Ardian Poernomo
  • Patent number: 10390062
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for grouping users into user clusters based on common behavior patterns, and then recommending content to the users based on their respective membership in the clusters. Some embodiments operate by receiving tracking data for a user, where the tracking data includes content viewing behavior information of the user, and/or user interface (UI) navigation behavior information of the user. A distance between the tracking data and a cluster profile associated with a user cluster is determined. If the distance satisfies a threshold associated with the user cluster, then the user is added to the user cluster. Thereafter, the user's view experience is customized based the user's membership in the user cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: ROKU, INC.
    Inventor: Sylvain René Yves Louboutin
  • Patent number: 10360593
    Abstract: Methods, systems and devices for presenting marketing information to a customer based on proximity to marketing areas. A wireless identity transmitter associated with the customer may periodically transmit wireless broadcast messages that include obscured identifiers. A proximity broadcast receiver within a retail store, such as near a product display or aisle, may receive and relay the broadcast messages to a server which may process the included information. Based on proximity information and other conditions, the server may transmit marketing information relevant to the customer and a proximate marketing area, such as coupons and offers. In an embodiment, the server may store data based on broadcast messages that may indicate foot traffic and other information valuable to merchants. The server may also transmit messages based on stored permissions that indicate whether the customer desires to receive marketing information and whether the server is authorized to provide the customer's identity to merchants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kevin E Hunter, Stephen A Sprigg, Neville J Meijers, Charles S Wurster, Paul E Jacobs
  • Patent number: 10321203
    Abstract: A video delivery service may display different content on an interface, such as ad campaign content, media program campaign content, and recommendation content. For example, the video delivery service may communicate with an ad engine to determine ad campaign content that is available and ad campaign scores to rate the ad campaign content. The video delivery service may also communicate with a media program campaign engine to determine any media program campaign content for the user and media program campaign scores to rate the media program campaign content. Then, the video delivery service may communicate with a recommendation engine to rate the relevance of the ad campaign content or media program campaign content to the user. After receiving the ad campaign content, media program campaign content, and recommendation content, the video delivery service determines which of the ad campaign content, media program campaign content, and recommendation content to display in the interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: HULU, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Russell Kehler, Kang Kang, Jeff Beal, Chi Zhang, Zhebang Hua, Lutfi Ilke Kaya
  • Patent number: 10306335
    Abstract: In some embodiments, the present invention is directed to a computer system which includes: a specifically programmed server, where the server includes a plurality of modules configured to perform at least: electronically and periodically obtaining, over a computer network, media data from a plurality of computer systems of media data sources, where the media data is associated with a plurality of media airings of a plurality creatives; electronically and periodically obtaining web tracking transaction data from a computer system of a web tracking electronic source; where the web tracking transaction data including web tracking metrics for web originated activities; where web originated activities include web orders placed in response to the offer associated with the creative; for each web order record in the transactional web data: attributing, by the specifically programmed server, a particular web order to a particular media airing; and displaying a real time updatable web attribution report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Inventor: Monica C. Smith
  • Patent number: 10250951
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for planning, executing, reviewing, and reporting the results of an advertising campaign to be run on TV. A demand-side platform receives ad slot opportunities from TV programming sources, and analyzes the ad slots to produce a prioritized list of placement opportunities for the advertising campaign to be presented to advertiser/clients. Each ad slot is analyzed with respect to past viewership data and with respect to desired targeting characteristics that may include conventional age and gender targeting, or additionally strategic targeting characteristics. Scores are established for each ad slot with respect to numbers of projected on-target impressions and/or a cost for projected on-target impressions. The scores are sorted to produce the prioritized list. Projected results can be viewed with respect to any or all of network, day, and daypart. After a campaign has completed, viewership data representing actual results is acquired, processed, and reported.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: ADOBE INC.
    Inventors: Alexander R. Hood, Jason Lopatecki, Justin K. Sung, Greg Collison, David Innes-Gawn
  • Patent number: 10166472
    Abstract: Example methods and systems for computing a reaction time from an indexed event occurring in an indexed recording to a reaction signal are described. An example method includes receiving a sample of ambient content of a computing device, determining a position identification of the sample of ambient content into an indexed recording to which the sample of ambient content matches, based on the position identification, synchronizing display of content on a user interface of the computing device to the indexed recording, and computing the reaction time. The reaction signal is generated by the computing device and is indicative of a user's response to the indexed event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Shazam Investments Ltd.
    Inventors: Daniel Carter Hunt, Cori Anne Shearer, Bronwyn Elizabeth Mahieu, Jeffrey Clemens Ludden, Mily Gupta Dahlke, Brian Jeffrey Kaull, Avery Li-Chun Wang
  • Patent number: 10135555
    Abstract: A device and a method for monitoring behavior of listening to broadcast comprises a transmitter transmitting a characteristic audio signal which is modulated on a carrier signal; a collector collecting an ambient sound; a detector detecting whether the collected ambient sound contains the characteristic audio signal; and a determiner determining whether a broadcast receiving apparatus receives the broadcasting channel corresponding to frequency of the carrier signal according to the result of the detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Nielsen-CCData Media Research Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong Zhang, Hao Jia, Shijun Liu, Haiyu Wang
  • Patent number: 10083459
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to generate a media rank. An example disclosed method includes (a) identifying households in which the product of interest was purchased, (b) calculating consumption factors for respective ones of the households based on a consumption total of the product of interest for the corresponding household and a household weight, (c) selecting first candidate media of interest, (d) calculating a rating value indicative of a relevance of the product of interest to the candidate media of interest based on the mathematical product of the consumption factor and a viewing time for corresponding ones of the households, (e) repeating (c) and (d) for second media, and (f) ranking the first and second media for the product of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Subramaniam Satyamoorthy, Sean C. Breedlove, Robert J. Fischer, Leslie Wood, Perry J. Fisch, Carleton W. Spaulding
  • Patent number: 10045165
    Abstract: A system and method for provision of content in messages sent to a mobile communications device. The additional content may be selected based on information associated with a user. In some embodiments the additional content includes a proposal from a vendor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Inventor: Robert H. Cohen
  • Patent number: 9947332
    Abstract: A method of processing a digital radio broadcast signal includes: (a) determining a plurality of current correlation sample values representative of a time delay between samples in an analog audio sample stream and samples in a digital audio sample stream; (b) determining a current inversion status; (c) updating a delay history and an inversion status history; (d) checking the current correlation sample values for consistency with a first confidence threshold; (e) if consistency is found in step (d), determining if each of a first plurality of values in the delay history is consistent within a predetermined range of the current correlation sample values; (f) if consistency is found in step (e), determining if a value in the inversion status history is consistent with the current inversion status; and (g) if the consistency is found in step (f), allowing blending of an output to the digital audio sample stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Ibiquity Digital Corporation
    Inventors: Gabriel Olochwoszcz, Ashwini Pahuja
  • Patent number: 9875488
    Abstract: A system and method for providing targeted marketing to a user based on the user's social media interaction. The system includes one or more computing platforms providing computer-automated functionality performing method steps for accepting a digital media and digital media related data from a publisher, generating associated information unique identifiers, monitoring social media networks for member-user rankings of the digital media after it is posted, and communicating to a member-user targeted marketing information based on the user rankings. A data storage device persists the digital media, digital media related data, and information unique identifier, which may include a linking hash character, a unique identifier, an account identifier, and/or social media network system-defined elements. The publisher selects digital media and information representing digital media elements, and posts the digital media on the social media network website.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: REWARDSTYLE, INC.
    Inventors: Baxter Box, Harrison Jackson
  • Patent number: 9872084
    Abstract: In some embodiments, the present invention is directed to a computer system which includes: a specifically programmed server, where the server includes a plurality of modules configured to perform at least: electronically and periodically obtaining, over a computer network, media data from a plurality of computer systems of media data sources, where the media data is associated with a plurality of media airings of a plurality creatives; electronically and periodically obtaining web tracking transaction data from a computer system of a web tracking electronic source; where the web tracking transaction data including web tracking metrics for web originated activities; where web originated activities include web orders placed in response to the offer associated with the creative; for each web order record in the transactional web data: attributing, by the specifically programmed server, a particular web order to a particular media airing; and displaying a real time updatable web attribution report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Inventor: Monica C. Smith
  • Patent number: 9824367
    Abstract: A closed-loop marketing system and method provides the ability to measure the return on investment of marketing programs across channels, both online and offline, including impression, page view and response levels. The present invention provides mechanisms for measuring a marketing department's contribution to the sales pipeline by taking into account the effect of multiple campaigns. A multi-campaign attribution methodology takes into measures the effect of a first touch (a campaign that first brought in an account), a last touch (a campaign that was presented immediately prior to the closing of a deal or creation of a sales-ready opportunity), and any significant re-touch events (campaigns that represent lead-nurturing and/or remarketing efforts).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Chad Sollis, Mikel Chertudi
  • Patent number: RE47229
    Abstract: An affiliate site commands the central site to construct a unique broadcast event log through the affiliate site's command browser. The sequenced data stream of broadcast content is combined with a digital artifact inserted into the digitized broadcast video and/or audio content immediately prior to the data transmission process. Transmission to the affiliate site is accomplished utilizing Internet Protocol. Upon reception at the destination, the commercial advertising or prepared program content is input to the affiliate site's system, routed to the broadcast production system, and in turn, processed by the broadcast transmission site, where it is converted from a digital to an analog signal, and transmitted electromagnetically in the radio frequency spectrum by the broadcast transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: GULA CONSULTING LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
    Inventor: Jon S. Nash-Putnam