US 11,057,286 B2Granted

Methods and apparatus to credit background applications

AssigneeThe Nielsen Company (US), LLC

InventorsSusan Cimino, Achilleas Papakostas, Cary Pillers

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Abstract

Methods, apparatus and computer readable storage medium are disclosed to monitor media exposure. Examples disclosed herein include a creditor to determine whether a bandwidth usage pattern of an application is spiked or continuous based on a first event record representative of background execution of the application being started, access a second event record associated with the application, update the second event record to be representative of the background execution of the application being stopped when the bandwidth usage pattern is spiked and a timestamp of the second event record exceeds a temporal activity window, and determine a duration of background execution of the application based on the first event record and the second event record.

Claims20

Dependent claims

An apparatus comprising:

a network usage monitor to compare bandwidth usage of an application executing in a background of a device to a threshold to determine a state of the application as one of active or inactive, the threshold based on a bandwidth usage pattern of the application;
a logger to log event records associated with the application, the event records including the state of the application;
and
a creditor to:
determine whether the bandwidth usage pattern is spiked or continuous based on a first event record representative of background execution of the application being started;
access a second event record associated with the application;
update the second event record to be representative of the background execution of the application being stopped when the bandwidth usage pattern is spiked and a timestamp of the second event record exceeds a temporal activity window;
and
determine a duration of background execution of the application based on the first event record and the second event record.

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A method comprising:

comparing, by executing an instruction with a processor, bandwidth usage of an application executing in a background of a device to a threshold to determine a state of the application as one of active or inactive, the threshold based on a bandwidth usage pattern of the application;
logging event records associated with the application, the event records including the state of the application;
determining, by executing an instruction with the processor, whether the bandwidth usage pattern is spiked or continuous based on a first event record representative of background execution of the application being started;
accessing a second event record associated with the application;
updating, by executing an instruction with the processor, the second event record to be representative of the background execution of the application being stopped when the bandwidth usage pattern is spiked and a timestamp of the second event record exceeds a temporal activity window;
and
determining a duration of background execution of the application based on the first event record and the second event record.

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A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising computer readable instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors to at least:

compare bandwidth usage of an application executing in a background of a device to a threshold to determine a state of the application as one of active or inactive, the threshold based on a bandwidth usage pattern of the application;
log event records associated with the application, the event records including the state of the application;
determine whether the bandwidth usage pattern is spiked or continuous based on a first event record representative of background execution of the application being started;
access a second event record associated with the application;
update the second event record to be representative of the background execution of the application being stopped when the bandwidth usage pattern is spiked and a timestamp of the second event record exceeds a temporal activity window;
and
determine a duration of background execution of the application based on the first event record and the second event record.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/532,108Filed 5 Aug 2019 · continuation
Priority: 1 Nov 2013
Published: US 2019/0363962 A128 Nov 2019
Granted: 6 Jul 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

H04L 43/0876
Monitoring or testing based on specific metrics, e.g. QoS, energy consumption or environmental parameters: network utilisation, e.g. volume of…
G06F 9/4843
Task transfer initiation or dispatching: by program, e.g. task dispatcher, supervisor, operating system
H04L 43/16
Arrangements for monitoring or testing data switching networks: threshold monitoring
H04L 67/125
Specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or…:…

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Application61/899,007Us provisional application · filed 1 Nov 2013
Application14/503,017Parent of this continuation · filed 30 Sep 2014
Application15/676,191Parent of this continuation · filed 14 Aug 2017
US 9,749,209 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 29 Aug 2017
US 2019/0363962 A1Pre-grant publication · published 28 Nov 2019
US 10,374,927 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2015/0127819 A1Published application
US 2017/0346713 A1Published application
US 11,057,286 B2This patent

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