Massachusetts Inventor Andrew Liebman Develops Patent

Andrew Liebman, Brookline, MA, has developed a patent (8,266,283) for a "media file access and storage solution for multi-workstation/multi-platform non-linear video editing systems."

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A novel system, method and computer program product for accessing digital media files stored in a media storage device via a server device in communication with the media storage device. There is provided a tool for allowing multiple non-linear editing systems to safely open up and work from and collaborate on the same ‘Project’. The tool manages ownership and permissions over different editors’ contributions to shared Projects and implements ‘symbolic links’ to create a virtual file and folder structure that creates an ‘optimized view’ of the Project for each editor, that keeps work organized so that it is clear which editor is editing what and that allows each editor to maintain his/her own settings for the Project."

The patent application was filed on April 12, 2006 (11/403,036).