Tympanon Assigned Patent

Tympanon LLC, Seattle, WA, has been assigned a patent (12289371) developed by Trump; Jason, Seattle, WA, for “efficiently managing the storage of digital media asset libraries on behalf of a group of users.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A facility for adding a media asset to a media library on behalf of a user is described. The facility identifies an original media asset in local storage, and extracts metadata from it. From a copy of the first original media asset, the facility removes the extracted metadata; reorders the remaining contents to conform their order to a standardized order; and updates at least one internal reference to reflect the removing and the reordering, to produce a normalized first media asset. The facility determines a hash value for the normalized media asset, and transmits it to a server. The facility receives from the server a challenge specifying a subrange of positions in the normalized media asset. The facility transmits to the server (a) the contents of the normalized first media asset in the specified subrange of positions, and (b) the metadata extracted from the first original media asset.”

The patent application was filed on 2024-08-08 (18/798553).