ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,809, issued on May 20, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Identifying duplication multimedia entities" was invented by Keith G. Frost (Delaware, Ohio), Stephen A. Boxwell (Columbus, Ohio), Kyle M. Brake (Dublin, Ohio) and Stanley J. Vernier (Grove City, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to a computer platform and corresponding process and program code to assess multimedia files with respect to similarity and duplicate media content. Data streams are converted into sequences of events, and audio representation with in the streams is identified and subject to processing with resp...