US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on May 6 for "Static and dynamic NBMP function image retrieval and scale ranking" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,918, issued on May 6, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Static and dynamic NBMP function image retrieval and scale ranking" was invented by Iraj Sodagar (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for dynamic Network-Based Media Processing (NBMP) image retrieval. A call for a function from among a function group is received. The function call corresponds to an NBMP request to a workflow manager. A determination is made as to whether an image associated with the received function call is static or dynamic. A pointer to the image is returned based...