Methods and apparatus to determine impressions using distributed demographic information

• US 10,269,044 B2
• Filed: 12/28/2015
• Issued: 04/23/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: The Nielsen Company LLC (MOOD Media Corporation)
• Original Assignee: The Nielsen Company LLC (MOOD Media Corporation)
• Inventors: Mazumdar, Mainak, Geraghty, Kevin, Heffernan, Ronan, Kalus, Mark, Paparo, Ari, Splaine, Steven J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Dalencourt, Yves
• Application Number:
  US14/981,448
• Publication Number:
  US 20160134700A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,212 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6245 Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0201 Market modelling; Market analysis; Collecting market data
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0246 Traffic
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0272 Period of advertisement exposure
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/04 Processing captured monitoring data, e.g. for logfile generation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0876 Network utilisation, e.g. volume of load or congestion level
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34

Abstract

An example involves, in response to a first request from a first client device, logging a first impression in association with a first identifier corresponding to media accessed by the first client device that generated the first request, and sending a communication to the first client device. The communication is to cause the first client device to send the first identifier to a database proprietor in association with a cookie identifier of the first client device. Second impressions are logged in response to second requests received from second client devices. The second impressions are associated with the first identifier and correspond to access to the media by the second client devices. A report is generated based on the first impression and corresponding first demographic information from the database proprietor, and based on the second impressions and corresponding second demographic information from an audience measurement entity different from the database proprietor.

Claims

1. A method to log impressions, the method comprising:

in response to a first request from a first client device;

logging, with a first server, a first impression in association with a first identifier corresponding to media accessed by the first client device that generated the first request, and

sending, with the first server, a communication to the first client device, the communication to cause the first client device to send the first identifier to a database proprietor in association with a cookie identifier of the first client device;

logging, with the first server, second impressions associated with the first identifier, the second impressions corresponding to access to the media by second client devices, the second impressions logged in response to second requests received from the second client devices; and

generating, by executing an instruction with a processor, a report based on the first impression and corresponding first demographic information from the database proprietor, and based on the second impressions and corresponding second demographic information from an audience measurement entity different from the database proprietor.

2. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein the first request and the second requests are hypertext transfer protocol requests that do not return webpages.

3. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein the first identifier is an advertisement campaign identifier, and further including logging the first impression and the second impressions in association with at least one of a placement identifier or a creative identifier associated with the media.

4. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein the database proprietor is a social network provider.

5. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein the first server does not recognize the first client device, the first client device being recognizeable by the database proprietor based on the cookie identifier corresponding to a registered user of the database proprietor.

6. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein the first server is in a first Internet domain, and the database proprietor is in a second Internet domain.

7. The method as defined in claim 1, wherein the first demographic information from the database proprietor is represented in aggregate demographic information received from the database proprietor, the aggregate demographic information corresponding to multiple registered users of the database proprietor.

8. An apparatus, comprising:

a communication interface to send a communication to a first client device in response to a first request from the first client device, the communication to cause the first client device to send a first identifier to a database proprietor in association with a cookie identifier of the first client device, the first identifier corresponding to media accessed by the first client device;

a data structure to;

log a first impression in association with the first identifier corresponding to the media accessed by the first client device; and

log second impressions associated with the first identifier, the second impressions corresponding to access to the media by second client devices, the second impressions logged in response to second requests from the second client devices; and

a processor to generate a report based on (a) the first impression and corresponding first demographic information from the database proprietor, and (b) the second impressions and corresponding second demographic information from an audience measurement entity different from the database proprietor.

9. The apparatus as defined in claim 8, wherein the first request and the second requests are hypertext transfer protocol requests that do not return webpages.

10. The apparatus as defined in claim 8, wherein the first identifier is an advertisement campaign identifier, and the data structure is further to log the first impression and the second impressions in association with at least one of a placement identifier or a creative identifier associated with the media.

11. The apparatus as defined in claim 8, wherein the database proprietor is a social network provider.

12. The apparatus as defined in claim 8, wherein the first client device is recognizable by the database proprietor based on the cookie identifier corresponding to a registered user of the database proprietor.

13. The apparatus as defined in claim 8, wherein the apparatus is in a first Internet domain, and the database proprietor is in a second Internet domain.

14. The apparatus as defined in claim 8, wherein the first demographic information from the database proprietor is represented in aggregate demographic information provided by the database proprietor, the aggregate demographic information corresponding to a plurality of registered users of the database proprietor.

15. A tangible computer readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed, cause a machine to at least:

in response to a first request from a first client device;

log a first impression in association with a first identifier corresponding to media accessed by the first client device that generated the first request, and

send a communication to the first client device, the communication to cause the first client device to send the first identifier to a database proprietor in association with a cookie identifier of the first client device;

log second impressions associated with the first identifier, the second impressions corresponding to access to the media by second client devices, the second impressions logged in response to second requests received from the second client devices; and

generate a report based on the first impression and corresponding first demographic information from the database proprietor, and based on the second impressions and corresponding second demographic information from an audience measurement entity different from the database proprietor.

16. The computer readable medium as defined in claim 15, wherein the first request and the second requests are hypertext transfer protocol requests that do not return webpages.

17. The computer readable medium as defined in claim 15, wherein the first identifier is an advertisement campaign identifier, and the instructions are further to cause the machine to log the first impression and the second impressions in association with at least one of a placement identifier or a creative identifier associated with the media.

18. The computer readable medium as defined in claim 15, wherein the database proprietor is a social network provider.

19. The computer readable medium as defined in claim 15, wherein the machine does not recognize the first client device, the first client device being recognizable by the database proprietor based on the cookie identifier corresponding to a registered user of the database proprietor.

20. The computer readable medium as defined in claim 15, wherein the machine is in a first Internet domain, and the database proprietor is in a second Internet domain.

21. The computer readable medium as defined in claim 15, wherein the first demographic information from the database proprietor is represented in aggregate demographic information received from the database proprietor, the aggregate demographic information corresponding to multiple registered users of the database proprietor.