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Facebook Assigned Patent

Storage of media item metadata

Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,031,921) developed by Snibbe, Scott, San Francisco, CA, McDermott, Graham, Berkeley, CA, Ponczek, Justin, San Francisco, CA, Schoeben, Spencer, Palo Alto, CA, and Fulton, Jesse, San Francisco, CA, for “methods and systems for storage of media item metadata.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “The various embodiments described herein include methods and systems for storage of media item metadata. In one aspect, a method is performed at a server system with one or more processors and memory. The method includes receiving, from a client device, metadata corresponding to a modified media item, where the modified media item is a modified version of a media item corresponding to a particular node in a family tree within a database of media items. The method further includes, in response to receiving the metadata corresponding to the modified media item, appending, to the family tree, a new leaf node that is linked to the particular node, where the new leaf node corresponds to the modified media item.

The patent application was filed on August 3, 2015 (14/816,984).

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