Patent ID: 11949951
Assignee: THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 7:
8. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, having stored thereon program instructions that upon execution by a processor, cause performance of operations comprising:
initializing, upon a determination that media data collection is complete, a variable to be equal to a first time corresponding to a first media record classified as AOT data or to be equal to a last time corresponding to a last media record classified as AOT data;
accessing a first channel information corresponding to the first media record and last channel information corresponding to the last media record;
comparing the first channel information with a second channel information or a third channel information with the last channel information, wherein the second channel information corresponds to a previously classified media record of the first media record and the third channel information corresponds to a previously classified media record of the last media record; and
creating, after a matching of the first channel information and the second channel information, or after a matching of the last channel information and the third channel information, a replica of at least one of the second channel information or the third channel information, wherein the replica of at least one of the second channel information or the third channel information is sent to replace the AOT data in the first media record or the last media record.