US Patent Issued to The Nielsen Company (US) on July 28 for "Monitoring streaming media content" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,683, issued on July 28, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Monitoring streaming media content" was invented by Arun Ramaswamy (Tampa, Fla.) and Jan Besehanic (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example apparatus disclosed herein are to send a request to a media provider that is to cause the media provider to initiate transmission of a transport stream that is to provide streaming media to a media presentation device. Disclosed example apparatus are also to extract metering metadata from a data file to be received by the media presentation device after the transmission of the transport stream is initiated by...