US Patent Issued to The Nielsen Company (US) on April 22 for "Methods and apparatus to monitor media in a direct media network" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,104, issued on April 22, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Methods and apparatus to monitor media in a direct media network" was invented by Sudheer Thota (Oldsmar, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to monitor media are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, machine-readable instructions, and at least one processor to execute the machine-readable instructions to at least establish a direct media network as a Group Owner after performance of a negotiation process with a streaming client device. The at least one processor is to add a client devi...