US 11,910,046 B2 · Methods and apparatus to verify and/or correct media lineup information

Abstract

Methods and apparatus to verify and/or correct media lineup information are disclosed. Disclosed example apparatus include means for determining reference media, the means for determining reference media to identify a plurality of first signatures in a database that matches a plurality of second signatures included in media presentation data representative of media output by a media device in response to a mismatch between the media presentation data and reference data associated with first reference media corresponding to a first station, the plurality of second signatures generated from the media output by the media device; and determine second reference media corresponding to the plurality of first signatures; and means for storing the media presentation data.

Claims12

Dependent claims

An apparatus to build a channel lineup, the apparatus comprising:

means for executing a script from an audience measurement entity, the means for executing to:
access the script, the script including set top box commands to access a plurality of channels;
and
execute the script to cause a device to transmit the set top box commands to a set top box to cause the set top box to access a first channel of the plurality of channels;
means for sensing a media signal associated with the first channel of the plurality of channels;
and
means for transmitting media presentation data generate the media presentation including an association of the first channel of the plurality of channels with at least one of a watermark extracted from the media signal or a signature generated from the media signal, the means for transmitting to transmit the media presentation data to the audience measurement entity to correct a channel map based on the association.

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An apparatus to build a channel lineup, the apparatus comprising:

memory;
computer readable instructions;
and
processor circuitry to execute the computer readable instruction to:
access a script from an audience measurement entity, the script including set top box commands to access a plurality of channels;
execute the script to cause a device to transmit the set top box commands to a set top box to cause the set top box to access a first channel of the plurality of channels;
sense a media signal associated with the first channel of the plurality of channels;
and
transmit media presentation data to the audience measurement entity to correct a channel map based on an association of (a) the first channel of the plurality of channels and (b) at least one of a watermark extracted from the media signal or a signature generated from the media signal.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

17/883,510Filed 8 Aug 2022 · continuation

Priority

19 Dec 2013

Published

US 2022/0385963 A11 Dec 2022

Granted

20 Feb 2024

Term ends

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Classification23 codes

H04N 21/2668
Channel or content management, e.g. generation and management of keys and entitlement messages in a conditional access system, merging a VOD…:…
G06F 16/245
Querying: query processing
H04H 60/31
Arrangements for monitoring broadcast services or broadcast-related services: arrangements for monitoring the use made of the broadcast services
H04H 60/44
For identifying broadcast space, i.e. broadcast channels, broadcast stations or broadcast areas: for identifying broadcast stations

Family

Application61/918,513Us provisional application · filed 19 Dec 2013

Application14/473,639Parent of this continuation · filed 29 Aug 2014

Application15/206,991Parent of this continuation · filed 11 Jul 2016

US 9,420,323 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 16 Aug 2016

Application16/118,226Parent of this continuation · filed 30 Aug 2018

US 10,097,872 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 9 Oct 2018

Application17/329,083Parent of this continuation · filed 24 May 2021

US 11,019,386 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 25 May 2021

US 2022/0385963 A1Pre-grant publication · published 1 Dec 2022

US 11,412,286 B2Parent of this continuation

US 2015/0181269 A1Published application

US 2016/0323618 A1Published application

US 2018/0376188 A1Published application

US 2021/0281900 A1Published application

US 11,910,046 B2This patent

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Methods and apparatus to verify and/or correct media lineup information

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Methods and apparatus to verify and/or correct media lineup information

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Abstract

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