US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Sept. 2 for "Systems, methods, and apparatuses for audience metric determination" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,001, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Systems, methods, and apparatuses for audience metric determination" was invented by Andrew Pagtakhan (New York), Robert Bress (New York) and Tracy Nguyen (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses for audience metric determination are described herein. An audience segment may be targeted for delivery of content. A clustering algorithm may be used to categorize a quantity of users or devices into subsets based on a propensity to consume, present or output a particular type of content, and a quantity of time to out...