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Estimating demographic compositions of television audiences from audience similarities

US8839291B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateApr 24, 2013
Grant dateSep 16, 2014
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Expiry dateMay 14, 2033

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N7/025
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for estimating demographic compositions of television audiences from audience similarities. In an aspect, pairwise cosine similarities of segment of viewers of rated and unrated television programs are determined, demographic information of rated programs is attributed to the unrated programs from the cosine similarity measures and demographic information for the rated programs.

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