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Michael Sheppard
Also filed as: SHEPPARD MICHAEL · SHEPPARD MICHAEL R · SHEPPARD MICHAEL RICHARD
161 granted patents·60 pending applications·511 citations·filing 2013–2025
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221 records- 0198US11523177B2Methods and apparatus to replicate panelists using a local minimum solution of an integer least squares problemNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2020·Granted Dec 6, 2022·15 cites·20 claims
- 0298US11483606B2Methods and apparatus to estimate population reach from different marginal rating unionsNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2020·Granted Oct 25, 2022·15 cites·23 claims
- 0398US11438662B2Methods and apparatus to determine synthetic respondent level dataNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2021·Granted Sep 6, 2022·15 cites·20 claims
- 0498US11381860B2Methods and apparatus to correct for deterioration of a demographic model to associate demographic information with media impression informationNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2021·Granted Jul 5, 2022·7 cites·20 claims
- 0598US11323772B2Methods and apparatus to estimate population reach from different marginal rating unionsNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2020·Granted May 3, 2022·18 cites·20 claims
- 0698US11140449B2Methods and apparatus to determine synthetic respondent level dataNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2020·Granted Oct 5, 2021·23 cites·26 claims
- 0797US11481802B2Methods and apparatus for audience and impression deduplicationNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2020·Granted Oct 25, 2022·11 cites·18 claims
- 0897US11425458B2Methods and apparatus to estimate population reach from marginal ratingsNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2019·Granted Aug 23, 2022·17 cites·20 claims
- 0997US11115710B2Methods and apparatus to determine synthetic respondent level data using constrained Markov chainsNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2019·Granted Sep 7, 2021·19 cites·22 claims
- 1097US10856027B2Methods and apparatus to estimate population reach from different marginal rating unionsNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2019·Granted Dec 1, 2020·22 cites·20 claims
- 1197US10728614B2Methods and apparatus to replicate panelists using a local minimum solution of an integer least squares problemNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2017·Granted Jul 28, 2020·22 cites·18 claims
- 1297US10602224B2Methods and apparatus to determine synthetic respondent level dataNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2017·Granted Mar 24, 2020·26 cites·26 claims
- 1397US10091547B2Methods and apparatus to utilize minimum cross entropy to calculate granular data of a region based on another region for media audience measurementNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2017·Granted Oct 2, 2018·19 cites·20 claims
- 1496US11983730B2Methods and apparatus to correct for deterioration of a demographic model to associate demographic information with media impression informationNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2022·Granted May 14, 2024·2 cites·20 claims
- 1596US11553226B2Methods and apparatus to estimate population reach from marginal ratings with missing informationNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2020·Granted Jan 10, 2023·14 cites·20 claims
- 1696US11216834B2Methods and apparatus to estimate population reach from different marginal ratings and/or unions of marginal ratings based on impression dataNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2019·Granted Jan 4, 2022·20 cites·20 claims
- 1796US10681414B2Methods and apparatus to estimate population reach from different marginal rating unionsNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2017·Granted Jun 9, 2020·18 cites·20 claims
- 1896US10382818B2Methods and apparatus to determine synthetic respondent level data using constrained Markov chainsNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2017·Granted Aug 13, 2019·18 cites·20 claims
- 1996US10270673B1Methods and apparatus for estimating total unique audiencesNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2016·Granted Apr 23, 2019·19 cites·23 claims
- 2095US11836750B2Methods, systems, articles of manufacture, and apparatus to estimate audience populationNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2022·Granted Dec 5, 2023·2 cites·20 claims
- 2195US11659242B2Methods, systems, articles of manufacture, and apparatus to estimate audience populationNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2021·Granted May 23, 2023·2 cites·20 claims
- 2295US10536358B2Methods and apparatus for estimating total unique audiencesNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2019·Granted Jan 14, 2020·9 cites·27 claims
- 2395US9743141B2Methods and apparatus to determine viewing condition probabilitiesNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2015·Granted Aug 22, 2017·13 cites·35 claims
- 2494US11676160B2Methods and apparatus to estimate cardinality of users represented in arbitrarily distributed bloom filtersNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2020·Granted Jun 13, 2023·3 cites·20 claims
- 2594US11416461B1Methods and apparatus to estimate audience sizes of media using deduplication based on binomial sketch dataNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2020·Granted Aug 16, 2022·5 cites·27 claims
- 2694US11232148B2Methods and apparatus for estimating total unique audiencesNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2021·Granted Jan 25, 2022·2 cites·27 claims
- 2794US11095940B1Methods, systems, articles of manufacture, and apparatus to estimate audience populationNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2020·Granted Aug 17, 2021·3 cites·20 claims
- 2894US9848224B2Methods and apparatus to estimate demographics of a householdNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2015·Granted Dec 19, 2017·9 cites·30 claims
- 2993US11689767B2Methods and apparatus to estimate population reach from different marginal rating unionsNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2022·Granted Jun 27, 2023·2 cites·23 claims
- 3092US12008587B2Methods and apparatus to generate audience metrics using matrix analysisNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2021·Granted Jun 11, 2024·3 cites·20 claims
- 3192US11871058B2Methods and apparatus to determine a duration of media presentation based on tuning sessionNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2022·Granted Jan 9, 2024·1 cites·23 claims
- 3292US11856250B2Methods and apparatus to determine a duration of media presentation based on tuning session durationNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2022·Granted Dec 26, 2023·1 cites·23 claims
- 3392US10861031B2Methods and apparatus to facilitate dynamic classification for market researchNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2015·Granted Dec 8, 2020·17 cites·25 claims
- 3492US9986272B1Methods and apparatus to determine a duration of media presentation based on tuning session durationNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2016·Granted May 29, 2018·5 cites·21 claims
- 3591US12450620B2Methods and apparatus to generate audience metrics using matrix analysisNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2024·Granted Oct 21, 2025·2 cites·20 claims
- 3691US11562015B2Methods and apparatus for estimating total unique audiencesNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2022·Granted Jan 24, 2023·1 cites·27 claims
- 3791US10924791B2Methods and apparatus to estimate demographics of a householdNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2019·Granted Feb 16, 2021·4 cites·15 claims
- 3891US10791355B2Methods and apparatus to determine probabilistic media viewing metricsNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2016·Granted Sep 29, 2020·5 cites·19 claims
- 3991US10200757B2Methods and apparatus to categorize media impressions by ageNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2017·Granted Feb 5, 2019·5 cites·12 claims
- 4090US11561942B1Methods and apparatus to estimate audience sizes of media using deduplication based on vector of counts sketch dataNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2020·Granted Jan 24, 2023·3 cites·33 claims
- 4190US11544726B2Methods, systems, articles of manufacture, and apparatus to estimate audience populationNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2020·Granted Jan 3, 2023·2 cites·46 claims
- 4290US11432026B2Methods and apparatus to determine a duration of media presentation based on tuning session durationNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2020·Granted Aug 30, 2022·2 cites·20 claims
- 4390US10602223B2Methods and apparatus to categorize media impressions by ageNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2019·Granted Mar 24, 2020·4 cites·16 claims
- 4489US11308514B2Methods and apparatus to estimate census level impressions and unique audience sizes across demographicsNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2019·Granted Apr 19, 2022·6 cites·20 claims
- 4589US10853824B2Methods and apparatus to apply household-level weights to household-member level audience measurement dataNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2018·Granted Dec 1, 2020·3 cites·20 claims
- 4689US10127567B2Methods and apparatus to apply household-level weights to household-member level audience measurement dataNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2015·Granted Nov 13, 2018·4 cites·21 claims
- 4788US12141824B2Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to determine unique audience size via clustered dataNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2022·Granted Nov 12, 2024·2 cites·21 claims
- 4888US11755545B2Methods and apparatus to estimate audience measurement metrics based on users represented in bloom filter arraysNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2020·Granted Sep 12, 2023·2 cites·36 claims
- 4988US11526914B2Methods and apparatus to adjust media impressions based on media impression notification loss rates in network communicationsNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2021·Granted Dec 13, 2022·1 cites·18 claims
- 5088US11055752B2Methods and apparatus to adjust media impressions based on media impression notification loss rates in network communicationsNIELSEN CO US LLC·Filed 2019·Granted Jul 6, 2021·4 cites·20 claims
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