ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,825, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to BEATDAPP SOFTWARE INC. (Vancouver, Canada).
"System and method for scalably tracking media playback using blockchain" was invented by Pouria Assadipour (Burnaby, Canada) and Andrew Batey (Vancouver, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for tracking media file playback are provided. A request to upload a media file and metadata associated with the media file is received. Next, the media file and metadata is uploaded via a blockchain protocol. Next, a request to play the media file is received from a client device or a digital service provider (DSP) platform. The request to pla...