D2L Assigned Patent

D2L Corporation, Kitchener, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,268,700) developed by Auger, Jeremy Jason, Kitchener, CA, for “systems and methods for generating and assigning metadata tags.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”An information management system including at least one data storage device and at least one processor coupled to the at least one data storage device. The at least one processor is configured to receive at least one object, the object having a location in a hierarchical file organizational structure. The processor also generates at least one prospective keyword for the at least one object based upon the location of the object in the hierarchical organization structure, and associates the at least one object with at least one of the prospective keywords.”

The patent application was filed on August 11, 2016 (15/234,506).