US 11,949,951 B2
Methods and apparatus to classify all other tuning data
Charles C. Conklin, New Port Richey, FL (US); and Michael Lombardi, Oldsmar, FL (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 Aug. 26, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/896,779.
Application 17/896,779 is a continuation of application No. 16/528,156, filed on Jul. 31, 2019, granted, now 11,432,042.
Prior Publication US 2022/0417596 A1, Dec. 29, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04N 21/442 (2011.01); G06F 16/73 (2019.01); H04N 21/422 (2011.01)
CPC H04N 21/44222 (2013.01) [G06F 16/73 (2019.01); H04N 21/422 (2013.01); H04N 21/44218 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for supplementing all-other-tuning (AOT) data classification, the apparatus comprising:
a record updater to, upon a determination that media data collection is complete, initialize a variable to be equal to a first time corresponding to a first media record classified as AOT data or to be equal to a last time corresponding to a last media record classified as AOT data;
an operating state identifier to access a first channel information corresponding to the first media record and last channel information corresponding to the last media record;
a comparator to compare the first channel information with a second channel information or a third channel information with the last channel information, wherein the second channel information corresponds to a previously classified media record of the first media record and the third channel information corresponds to a previously classified media record of the last media record;
and
a duplicator to, based on the first channel information matching the second channel information, or the last channel information matching the third channel information, create a replica of at least one of the second channel information or the third channel information,
wherein the replica of at least one of the second channel information or the third channel information is sent to the record updater to replace the AOT data in the first media record or the last media record.