US Patent Issued to Gracenote on Feb. 17 for "Methods and apparatus for efficient media indexing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,697, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Gracenote Inc. (New York).

"Methods and apparatus for efficient media indexing" was invented by Matthew James Wilkinson (Emeryville, Calif.), Jeffrey Scott (Berkeley, Calif.), Robert Coover (Orinda, Calif.) and Konstantinos Antonios Dimitriou (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for efficient media indexing. An example method disclosed herein includes means for initiating a list of hash seeds, the list of hash seeds including at least a first hash seed value and a second hash seed value among other hash seed values, ...