ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,054, issued on June 17.
"Tamper-evident storage and provisioning of media streams" was invented by Julien Vary (Orford, Canada), Yannick Laberge (Sherbrooke, Canada), Antoine Lennartz (La Prairie, Canada), Vincent Beaulieu (Sherbrooke, Canada) and Pierre Racz (Montreal).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for tamper-evident storage of a media stream, and for serving tamper-evident media. The tamper-evident media is stored using a data structure comprising a payload field and an associated metadata field. A portion of a media stream is obtained from a media source. A set of parameters, t...