WO2012177874A3 - Methods and apparatus to measure exposure to streaming media - Google Patents

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WO2012177874A3
WO2012177874A3 PCT/US2012/043546 US2012043546W WO2012177874A3 WO 2012177874 A3 WO2012177874 A3 WO 2012177874A3 US 2012043546 W US2012043546 W US 2012043546W WO 2012177874 A3 WO2012177874 A3 WO 2012177874A3
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streaming media
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Jan Besehanic
Alan Bosworth
Arun Ramaswamy
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The Nielsen Company (Us), Llc
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Priority to CN201280032740.2A priority Critical patent/CN103733629A/en
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Abstract

Methods and apparatus to measure exposure to streaming media are described. An example method includes extracting metering data from media obtained from a media provider. Metadata identifying the media based on the extracted metering data is generated. The media is transcoded into a transport stream, the transport stream having a streaming format. The metadata is embedded in a timed text track accompanying the transport stream.
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CN201280032740.2A CN103733629A (en) 2011-06-21 2012-06-21 Methods and apparatus to measure exposure to streaming media
EP12802805.7A EP2756684A4 (en) 2011-06-21 2012-06-21 Methods and apparatus to measure exposure to streaming media
MX2014000281A MX2014000281A (en) 2011-06-21 2012-06-21 Methods and apparatus to measure exposure to streaming media.
AU2012272876A AU2012272876B2 (en) 2011-06-21 2012-06-21 Methods and apparatus to measure exposure to streaming media

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US201161499520P 2011-06-21 2011-06-21
US61/499,520 2011-06-21
US201161568631P 2011-12-08 2011-12-08
US61/568,631 2011-12-08
US13/341,646 2011-12-30
US13/341,646 US9210208B2 (en) 2011-06-21 2011-12-30 Monitoring streaming media content
US13/341,661 2011-12-30
US13/341,661 US9515904B2 (en) 2011-06-21 2011-12-30 Monitoring streaming media content
US13/455,961 US20130290508A1 (en) 2012-04-25 2012-04-25 Methods and apparatus to measure exposure to streaming media
US13/455,961 2012-04-25

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