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US 8495242
Automated media delivery system
Current assignee: Equil IP Holdings LLC
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Patent summary
Title, assignee, inventors, filing/issue dates, abstract, and a plain-language overview of the claims.
Patent Overview — US8495242B2
Title: Automated media delivery system
Patent number / application: US8495242B2; application US12/713,637.
Assignee information (as listed): Original assignee Automated Media Processing Solutions Inc; current assignee listed as Equil Ip Holdings LLC / Automated Media Processing Solutions Inc. Inventors: Sean Barger, Steve Johnson, Matt Butler, Jerry Destremps, David Pochron, Trent Brown.
Key dates: Prior art date and priority date 1999-10-21; filing date 2010-02-26; publication date 2013-07-23; legal status "Expired - Fee Related," with adjusted expiration 2020-01-05.
Purpose (from the supplied text): The invention "relates to software systems. More particularly, the invention relates to an Internet server-based software system that provides delivery of automated graphics and other media to Web sites for access by an end user or consumer."
Plain-language scope (from the supplied text): The system concerns automated delivery of graphics and other media to Web sites. The excerpt describes the then-current state of the art as offering consumers zooming and panning of images, and pages with three-dimensional imagery resembling rooms rather than brochures. The background discusses media content used in interactive digital media, object mapping data kept separate from Frame Data, and converting existing non-interactive media (movies, videos, advertising, television) into interactive digital media. The classification includes web browsing optimization, multimedia data retrieval, metadata, and hyperlinking. The listed prior-art keyword set is transcoding, act, media content, media, transcoded, indicating a transcoding-related disclosure.
Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/[US8495242](/patent/US8495242)/en
What the excerpt does not establish: It does not provide the claims, detailed description, figures, or specific transcoding steps. The background passage referencing TrueSpectra is truncated mid-sentence, and the excerpt indicates omitted text. Therefore this overview cannot state the exact claimed scope, embodiments, or how transcoding is performed.
Prepared from the supplied patent text only; no external research on litigation, ownership, validity, or prior art was conducted.
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Cases on file (1)
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- Equil IP Holdings LLC v. Akamai Technologies, Inc.filed May 24, 20221:22-cv-00677-RGAU.S. District Court for the District of Delawarestayed/administratively closed
Defendants: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
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Current assignee: Equil IP Holdings LLC
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Assignment history
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Prior art
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Obviousness
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