Methods and apparatus to use station identification to enable confirmation of exposure to live media
AssigneeThe Nielsen Company (US), LLC
InventorsJeremey M. Davis, Christen V. Nielsen
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AssigneeThe Nielsen Company (US), LLC
InventorsJeremey M. Davis, Christen V. Nielsen
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Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to use station identification to enable confirmation of exposure to live media. Example apparatus disclosed herein include a watermark data segmenter to determine a media identifier conveyed by a watermark, a detection time determiner to determine a time at which a media meter detected the watermark from a media presentation by a media device, a reference identifier to query a library of reference signatures for a reference signature associated with the media identifier of the watermark and associated with a reference timestamp corresponding to the time at which the media meter detected the watermark, and a viewing type determiner to determine whether the media presentation is live or time-shifted based on whether a result of the query indicates the reference signature does not exist in the library of reference signatures.
An apparatus comprising:
At least one non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions to cause at least one processor to at least:
A method comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.