US Patent Issued to Tympanon on April 29 for "Efficiently managing the storage of digital media asset libraries on behalf of a group of users" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,371, issued on April 29, was assigned to Tympanon LLC (Seattle).

"Efficiently managing the storage of digital media asset libraries on behalf of a group of users" was invented by Jason Trump (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A facility for adding a media asset to a media library on behalf of a user is described. The facility identifies an original media asset in local storage, and extracts metadata from it. From a copy of the first original media asset, the facility removes the extracted metadata; reorders the remaining contents to conform their order to a standardized order; and updates at least one internal reference to reflec...