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Last updated: April 19, 2026

The Nielsen Company (US), LLC

49 pending office actions

Portfolio Summary

49
Total Pending OAs
14
Final Rejections
35
Non-Final OAs

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatusFiled
19023730 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE ENGAGEMENT LEVELS OF AUDIENCE MEMBERS LE, RONG 2421 Non-Final OA Jan 16, 2025
19021682 SYSTEMS, APPARATUS, AND METHODS TO IMPROVE WATERMARK DETECTION IN ACOUSTIC ENVIRONMENTS MENGESHA, MULUGETA A 2424 Non-Final OA Jan 15, 2025
19023079 METHODS, APPARATUS, AND ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE TO DETERMINE PENETRATION AND CHURN OF STREAMING SERVICES EKPO, NNENNA NGOZI 2425 Non-Final OA Jan 15, 2025
19017721 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETECT A PRESENCE STATUS OCAK, ADIL 2426 Non-Final OA Jan 12, 2025
18985221 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMIC MEDIA INSERTION BASED ON STREAMING METER DATA DAVIS, CHENEA 2421 Non-Final OA Dec 18, 2024
18985772 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETECT USER ATTENTIVENESS TO HANDHELD COMPUTING DEVICES ALCON, FERNANDO 2425 Non-Final OA Dec 18, 2024
18982908 Use of Steganographically-Encoded Time Information as Basis to Control Implementation of Dynamic Content Modification PIERORAZIO, MICHAEL 2426 Non-Final OA Dec 16, 2024
18979910 FLEXIBLE COMMERCIAL MONITORING OCAK, ADIL 2426 Non-Final OA Dec 13, 2024
18950686 MEDIA DEVICE ON/OFF DETECTION USING RETURN PATH DATA WAESCO, JOSEPH M 3625 Non-Final OA Nov 18, 2024
18942596 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO CALIBRATE AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT RATINGS BASED ON RETURN PATH DATA REYNOLDS, DEBORAH J 2400 Non-Final OA Nov 09, 2024
18925233 FREQUENCY BAND SELECTION AND PROCESSING TECHNIQUES FOR MEDIA SOURCE DETECTION PENDLETON, DIONNE 2689 Non-Final OA Oct 24, 2024
18914528 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE IMPRESSIONS USING DISTRIBUTED DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION DALENCOURT, YVES 2457 Non-Final OA Oct 14, 2024
18902258 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO IDENTIFY STREAMING MEDIA SOURCES KURIEN, CHRISTEN A 2421 Non-Final OA Sep 30, 2024
18886337 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO CREDIT USAGE OF MOBILE DEVICES ROBINSON, CHRISTOPHER B 2443 Non-Final OA Sep 16, 2024
18882270 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO GENERATE AUDIENCE METRICS ALAM, MUSHFIKH I 2426 Final Rejection Sep 11, 2024
18829727 APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR USER PRESENCE DETECTION FOR AUDIENCE MONITORING HUERTA, ALEXANDER Q 2425 Final Rejection Sep 10, 2024
18826181 METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO IDENTIFY MEDIA CONTENT USING WATERMARK METADATA AND MAPPED AUDIO SIGNATURES LONG, EDWARD X 2439 Non-Final OA Sep 06, 2024
18825761 Use of Doppler Shift as a Basis to Determine Area of Focus OCAK, ADIL 2426 Non-Final OA Sep 05, 2024
18823375 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE SYNTHETIC RESPONDENT LEVEL DATA USING CONSTRAINED MARKOV CHAINS CHEN, CAI Y 2425 Non-Final OA Sep 03, 2024
18811437 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO CORRELATE A DEMOGRAPHIC SEGMENT WITH A FIXED DEVICE DOAN, TAN 2445 Non-Final OA Aug 21, 2024
18809508 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR LOADING AND ROLL-OFF OF REFERENCE MEDIA ASSETS DOSHI, AKSHAY 2422 Non-Final OA Aug 20, 2024
18800643 Random Address Data Matching CHEEMA, UMAR 2458 Non-Final OA Aug 12, 2024
18799214 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION WITH AN AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT DEVICE DETWEILER, JAMES M 3621 Final Rejection Aug 09, 2024
18794352 AUDIENCE MONITORING SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS ANWAH, OLISA 2692 Non-Final OA Aug 05, 2024
18782872 Method and System for Metering Audio Exposure from a Wireless Personal Listening Device RILEY, MARCUS T 2654 Non-Final OA Jul 24, 2024
18743229 APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF USERS LANGHNOJA, KUNAL N 2425 Non-Final OA Jun 14, 2024
18678715 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MONITOR MEDIA PRESENTATIONS LE, RONG 2421 Final Rejection May 30, 2024
18675890 METHODS, SYSTEMS, ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE COMPONENT LIFTS FROM OVERLAPPING STIMULI ANDREI, RADU 3698 Final Rejection May 28, 2024
18612638 Application Programming Interface Based Monitoring of Media Exposure GAVIN, KRISTIN ELIZABETH 3624 Final Rejection Mar 21, 2024
18443302 METHODS, APPARATUS AND ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE TO PROVIDE SECONDARY CONTENT IN ASSOCIATION WITH PRIMARY BROADCAST MEDIA CONTENT SAINT CYR, JEAN D 2425 Final Rejection Feb 16, 2024
18522507 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO COLLECT DISTRIBUTED USER INFORMATION FOR MEDIA IMPRESSIONS AND SEARCH TERMS MCNALLY, MICHAEL S 2432 Non-Final OA Nov 29, 2023
18510965 Use of Non-Streaming-Pattern Data Flow as Basis to Trigger Monitoring for Ad Exposure OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF 3622 Final Rejection Nov 16, 2023
18508847 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO EXTEND A TIMESTAMP RANGE SUPPORTED BY A WATERMARK WITHOUT BREAKING BACKWARDS COMPATABILITY NAKHJAVAN, SHERVIN K 2672 Non-Final OA Nov 14, 2023
18502167 Advanced Audience Deduplication Using Exposure Sketches and Audience Sketches CIRNU, ALEXANDRU 3622 Non-Final OA Nov 06, 2023
18454371 RECONCILIATION OF COMMERCIAL MEASUREMENT RATINGS FOR NON-RETURN PATH DATA MEDIA DEVICES STROUD, CHRISTOPHER 3621 Non-Final OA Aug 23, 2023
18348202 Use of Audio Classification as Basis to Control Audio Identification LIEBGOTT, TYLER MICHAEL 2694 Non-Final OA Jul 06, 2023
18331826 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO COUNT PEOPLE IN AN AUDIENCE SHELEHEDA, JAMES R 2424 Final Rejection Jun 08, 2023
18330554 Communication of Payload Data Through Altered Sequence of Metadata Defining Audio-Rendering Directives SELLERS, DANIEL R 2694 Final Rejection Jun 07, 2023
18079533 PEOPLE METERING ENHANCED WITH LIGHT PROJECTION PROMPTING FOR AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT BURGDORF, STEPHEN R 2685 Final Rejection Dec 12, 2022
17977848 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE DEMOGRAPHIC CLASSIFICATIONS FOR CENSUS LEVEL IMPRESSION COUNTS AND UNIQUE AUDIENCE SIZES OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF 3622 Final Rejection Oct 31, 2022
17949812 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO ADJUST FOR NON-RESPONSE USING BIG DATA CHONG CRUZ, NADJA N 3623 Non-Final OA Sep 21, 2022
17943022 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO TRAIN AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-BASED MODEL LEWIS, MATTHEW LEE 2144 Non-Final OA Sep 12, 2022
17898265 METHODS, SYSTEMS AND APPARATUS FOR AUDIENCE-BASED DEDUPLICATION USING VECTOR-OF-COUNTS (VOC) CENTRAL MOMENTS ADAMS, CHARLES D 2152 Non-Final OA Aug 29, 2022
17855121 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO ESTIMATE MEDIA IMPRESSIONS AND DUPLICATION USING COHORTS LEE, PO HAN 3623 Non-Final OA Jun 30, 2022
17694493 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO REDUCE COMPUTER-GENERATED ERRORS IN COMPUTER-GENERATED AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT DATA LEE, PO HAN 3623 Final Rejection Mar 14, 2022
17504265 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SESSION BUILDING FROM PING-LEVEL DATA DOSHI, AKSHAY 2422 Non-Final OA Oct 18, 2021
17316168 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO GENERATE COMPUTER-TRAINED MACHINE LEARNING MODELS TO CORRECT COMPUTER-GENERATED ERRORS IN AUDIENCE DATA BEAN, GRIFFIN TANNER 2121 Non-Final OA May 10, 2021
16230620 NEURAL NETWORK PROCESSING OF RETURN PATH DATA TO ESTIMATE HOUSEHOLD DEMOGRAPHICS JAYAKUMAR, CHAITANYA R 2128 Final Rejection Dec 21, 2018
16197307 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO COLLECT AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT DATA ON COMPUTING DEVICES ZELASKIEWICZ, CHRYSTINA E 3699 Non-Final OA Nov 20, 2018

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