Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methods and apparatus to determine a unique audience for internet-based media
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Application No.: US17337135Application Date: 2021-06-02
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Publication No.: US11381859B1Publication Date: 2022-07-05
- Inventor: Jake Dailey , Furqan Hanif , Diane Morovati Lopez , Jose Mortensen , Chris Nicotra , Christine Pierce , Matthew Vanlandeghem
- Applicant: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
- Applicant Address: US NY New York
- Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
- Current Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US NY New York
- Agency: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC
- Main IPC: H04N21/258
- IPC: H04N21/258 ; H04N21/266 ; H04N21/254 ; H04N21/2543 ; H04N21/235 ; G06F3/06 ; G06F16/13 ; G06F16/22 ; H04N21/81

Abstract:
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to generate measures of unique audiences for Internet-based media. An example apparatus disclosed herein includes at least one memory, instructions, and at least one processor. The processor to execute the instructions to: receive first HyperLogLog (HLL) data from a first server of a first database proprietor and second HyperLogLog (HLL) data from a second server of a second database proprietor, the first HLL data including obfuscated first user impression data and the second HLL data including obfuscated second user impression data; generate union HLL data based on the first HLL data from the first database proprietor and the second HLL data from the second database proprietor by performing a union of data sets of the obfuscated first user impression data represented in the first HLL data and the obfuscated second user impression data represented in the second HLL data; and determine a total number of deduplicated unique audience members based on the union HLL data generated by the vector analyzer.
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