US 11,736,583 B2
Methods and apparatus to monitor media presentations
Alan N. Bosworth, Oldsmar, FL (US); Albert T. Borawski, Oldsmar, FL (US); Scott Cooper, Oldsmar, FL (US); and Kevin K. Gaynor, Manteca, CA (US)
Assigned to The Nielsen Company (US), LLC, New York, NY (US)
Filed by The Nielsen Company (US), LLC, New York, NY (US)
Filed on Jul. 29, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/877,653.
Application 17/877,653 is a continuation of application No. 17/314,961, filed on May 7, 2021, granted, now 11,431,814.
Application 17/314,961 is a continuation of application No. 16/814,618, filed on Mar. 10, 2020, granted, now 11,019,163, issued on May 25, 2021.
Application 16/814,618 is a continuation of application No. 16/278,603, filed on Feb. 18, 2019, granted, now 10,623,511, issued on Apr. 14, 2020.
Application 16/278,603 is a continuation of application No. 15/299,139, filed on Oct. 20, 2016, granted, now 10,212,242, issued on Feb. 19, 2019.
Application 15/299,139 is a continuation of application No. 13/828,971, filed on Mar. 14, 2013, granted, now 9,503,536, issued on Nov. 22, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2022/0368774 A1, Nov. 17, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 67/50 (2022.01); G06F 11/34 (2006.01); H04L 67/30 (2022.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); H04W 12/02 (2009.01); G06F 8/30 (2018.01); G06F 8/77 (2018.01); G06Q 30/0242 (2023.01)
CPC H04L 67/535 (2022.05) [G06F 8/30 (2013.01); G06F 8/77 (2013.01); G06F 11/34 (2013.01); G06F 21/6245 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0246 (2013.01); H04L 67/30 (2013.01); H04W 12/02 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A tangible machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions which, when executed, cause a machine to at least:
provide a software development kit to an application developer, the software development kit to enable the application developer to create a monitoring enabled application to be executed at a media device;
transmit a panelist identifier in response to a request from a registrar executed by the media device, the registrar separate from the monitoring enabled application, the registrar to store a consent identifier in a pasteboard of the media device, the request including demographic information associated with a user of the media device, the panelist identifier stored in the pasteboard of the media device by the registrar executed at the media device and accessible to multiple monitoring enabled applications at the media device, the monitoring enabled application to collect at least one of application monitoring data or media monitoring data if the consent identifier is in the pasteboard and to disable collection of the at least one of application monitoring data or media monitoring data if the consent identifier is not in the pasteboard, the registrar to delete the consent identifier while leaving the panelist identifier in a data store associated with at least one of the application monitoring data or the media monitoring data; and
collect the at least one of application monitoring data or media monitoring data from the monitoring enabled application.