Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methods and apparatus to determine synthetic respondent level data using constrained Markov chains
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Application No.: US18332737Application Date: 2023-06-11
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Publication No.: US12088876B2Publication Date: 2024-09-10
- Inventor: Michael Sheppard , Jonathan Sullivan , Michael D. Morgan , Balachander Shankar , Edward Murphy , Frank Downing
- 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
- Main IPC: H04N21/40
- IPC: H04N21/40 ; H04H60/31 ; H04N21/258 ; H04N21/262 ; H04N21/442 ; H04N21/458 ; H04N21/81 ; H04N21/845
Abstract:
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to generate synthetic respondent level data. Example apparatus disclosed herein include means for generating a synthetic panel corresponding to a duration of time, the means for generating the synthetic panel to: generate a transition matrix corresponding to a first sub-duration of the duration of time and a second sub-duration of the duration of time; generate, based on the transition matrix, a plurality of synthetic panelists and associated viewing data; remove first ones of the synthetic panelists associated with one or more weights that do not satisfy a threshold to generate the synthetic panel corresponding to the duration of time, the synthetic panel representative of audiences of media presented by a plurality of media devices during the duration of time; and generate synthetic respondent level data based on the viewing data associated with remaining second ones of the synthetic panelists.
Public/Granted literature
- US20230379537A1 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE SYNTHETIC RESPONDENT LEVEL DATA USING CONSTRAINED MARKOV CHAINS Public/Granted day:2023-11-23
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