US Patent Issued on March 31 for "Methods and apparatus to identify media presentations by analyzing network traffic" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,101, issued on March 31.

"Methods and apparatus to identify media presentations by analyzing network traffic" was invented by Joseph Kerkes (Lutz, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed herein to identify media presentation by analyzing network traffic. Example instructions cause a machine to generate a traffic profile to reduce a computational burden of identifying streaming media being presented on a media presentation device, the traffic profile including first network traffic data indicative of the streaming media; obtain the traffic profile and second network t...