Methods and apparatus to monitor media presentations

• US 9,697,533 B2
• Filed: 08/09/2013
• Issued: 07/04/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: The Nielsen Company LLC (MOOD Media Corporation)
• Original Assignee: The Nielsen Company LLC (MOOD Media Corporation)
• Inventors: Ramaswamy, Arun, Alla, Madhusudhan Reddy
• Primary Examiner(s): Stevens, Robert
• Application Number:
  US13/963,737
• Publication Number:
  US 20140317114A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,425 Days
• Field of Search: 707737, 707769, 707690, 707758
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/245 Query processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/285 Clustering or classification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0204 Market segmentation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0246 Traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/251 Learning process for intelligent management, e.g. learning user preferences for recommending movies details of learning user preferences for the retrieval of video data in a video database G06F16/739; computer systems using learning methods G06N3/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25883 being end-user demographical data, e.g. age, family status or address arrangements for identifying locations of users in broadcast systems H04H60/52

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to monitor media are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a software development kit provider to provide a software development kit to enable an application developer to create an application developer to create a monitoring enabled application. The example apparatus further includes a monitoring data receiver to receive data collected from a media device executing the monitoring enabled application, the data collected via the monitoring enabled application, the collected data including a media identifier and at least one of a device identifier or a user identifier. The example apparatus further includes a data store to store the collected data, and a database proprietor interface to request demographic information from a database proprietor, the database proprietor interface to store the demographic information in association with the media identifier in the data store.

Claims

1. An apparatus to monitor media, the apparatus comprising:

a software development kit provider to provide a software development kit to enable an application developer to create a monitoring enabled application;

a monitoring data receiver at an audience measurement entity to receive data collected from a media device executing the monitoring enabled application, the data collected via the monitoring enabled application, the collected data including a first user identifier, a second user identifier different from the first user identifier, and a media identifier received in a single message, the first user identifier to identify at least one of the media device or a user of the media device to a first database proprietor, and the second user identifier to identify the at least one of the media device or the user of the media device to a second database proprietor, the first and second database proprietors being separate from the audience measurement entity;

a data store at the audience measurement entity to store the collected data; and

a database proprietor interface at the audience measurement entity to request first demographic information from the first database proprietor based on the first user identifier and second demographic information from the second database proprietor based on the second user identifier, the database proprietor interface to store at least one of the first demographic information or the second demographic information in association with the media identifier in the data store.

2. The apparatus as described in claim 1, wherein the first database proprietor implements a user registration model to store the first demographic information in association with the first user identifier.

3. The apparatus as described in claim 1, wherein the media identifier is formatted as an ID3 tag.

4. The apparatus as described in claim 3, wherein the ID3 tag includes media-identifying metadata.

5. The apparatus as described in claim 1, wherein at least one of the first user identifier or the second user identifier is an Apple ID.

6. The apparatus as described in claim 1, wherein the monitoring enabled application is to transmit the collected data to the monitoring data receiver.

7. The apparatus as described in claim 1, wherein the software development kit includes functionality to enable the monitoring enabled application to identify the media identifier.

8. The apparatus as described in claim 1, wherein the database proprietor interface is to request the first demographic information from the first database proprietor in the aggregate.

9. The apparatus as described in claim 1, wherein the media identifier identifies media presented by the monitoring enabled application.

10. The apparatus as described in claim 1, wherein the software development kit includes functionality to enable the monitoring enabled application to identify the first user identifier and the second user identifier.

11. A method of monitoring a media presentation, the method comprising:

providing a software development kit to an application developer, the software development kit to enable the application developer to create a monitoring enabled application;

accessing, at a processor of an audience measurement entity, a first user identifier, a second user identifier different from the first user identifier, and a media identifier received in a single message from the monitoring enabled application executed on a media device, the first user identifier to identify at least one of the media device or a user of the media device to a first database proprietor, and the second user identifier to identify the at least one of the media device or the user of the media device to a second database proprietor, the first and second database proprietors being separate from the audience measurement entity;

querying the first database proprietor for first demographic information in association with the first user identifier;

querying the second database proprietor for second demographic information in association with the second user identifier; and

logging, with the processor of the audience measurement entity, an impression of media identified by the media identifier in association with at least one of the first demographic information or the second demographic information.

12. The method as described in claim 11, wherein the media identifier is formatted as an ID3 tag.

13. The method as described in claim 12, wherein the ID3 tag includes media-identifying metadata.

14. The method as described in claim 12, wherein the ID3 tag includes source-identifying metadata.

15. The method as described in claim 11, wherein the media identifier identifies the media presented by the monitoring enabled application.

16. A tangible computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions which, when executed, cause a machine to at least:

provide a software development kit to an application developer, the software development kit to enable the application developer to create a monitoring enabled application;

access at an audience measurement entity, a first user identifier, a second user identifier different from the first user identifier, and a media identifier received in a single message from the monitoring enabled application executed by a media device, the first user identifier to identify at least one of the media device or a user of the media device to a first database proprietor, and the second user identifier to identify the at least one of the media device or the user of the media device to a second database proprietor, the first and second database proprietors being separate from the audience measurement entity;

query the first database proprietor based on the first user identifier and the second database proprietor based on the second user identifier for demographic information; and

log an impression of media identified by the first media identifier in association with the demographic information received from at least one of the first database proprietor or the second database proprietor.

17. The computer-readable storage medium as described in claim 16, wherein the media identifier is formatted as an ID3 tag.

18. The computer-readable storage medium as described in claim 17, wherein the ID3 tag includes media-identifying metadata.

19. The computer-readable storage medium as described in claim 17, wherein the ID3 tag includes source-identifying metadata.

20. The computer-readable storage medium as described in claim 16, wherein the media identifier identifies the media presented by the monitoring enabled application.