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AssigneeThe Nielsen Company (US), LLC
InventorsRachel Worth Olson, Michael Evan Anderson, Rishi Sriram, Margaret M. Orton, Fatemehossadat Miri, Samantha M. Mowrer, David J. Kurzynski, Molly Poppie
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Example methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) to deduplicate common devices across multiple data sources are disclosed. An example apparatus includes instructions to identify a first device in a first data source and a second device in a second data source as a possible common device, calculate at least one of a station duration metric, a time match metric or a station path metric, the station duration metric, the time match metric based times of day that the first device tuned to a second set of stations and times of day that the second device tuned to the second set of stations, determine a score based on the at least one of the station duration metric, the time match metric, or the station path metric, and determine when the first device and the second device are a common device based on the score.
A system comprising:
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions which, when executed, cause a processor to perform a set of operations comprising:
A method comprising:
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