Patent ID: 11930251
Assignee: THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A commercial crediting method comprising:
detecting, within a network feed, codes to obtain media monitoring system data;
accessing, by a processor, commercial crediting feed data corresponding to a first monitored commercial;
in response to determining the first monitored commercial was distributed via a broadcast network and not a cable network, (1) comparing, by executing an instruction with the processor, the commercial crediting feed data to the media monitoring system data to identify a code of the codes included in the network feed to identify the first monitored commercial, and (2) comparing, by executing an instruction with the processor, the code to first lineup data to identify crediting data for the first monitored commercial, wherein the comparing of the code to the first lineup data further includes:
identifying a first media program listed in the first lineup data adjacent to the first monitored commercial identified by the code; and
adjusting a duration of the first media program based on a duration of the first monitored commercial; and

storing, by the processor, the crediting data for the first monitored commercial in a data repository.