Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc.

Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Accenture Global Services Gmbh

Ryan Kido

Oleksandr Zhukov

Jason Brahms

Oleg Sharov

David Rosen

Youssef Tuma

Keith Stevens

David Wolf

Rick Dinicola

Tatsuya Oiye

Digitally distributing media content using a distribution backbone system, including: receiving a request for media content from a client, the request including a client profile; performing inventory and analysis of source assets by iteratively progressing through the client profile to create output; performing a capability mapping in which a series of rules that allow the source assets to be mapped to the client profile; and planning a manufacturing process, which determines work items and execution steps from capabilities mapped in response to the request for media content from the client.

Distribution backbone

Logging events in a media file, including: providing a logger tool to allow a user to view media in multiple ways and to capture and validate key events within the media file; and tracking and logging events in the media file by adding information to the media file including locations of bars and tone, slates, content, logos, commercial blacks, quality control issues, subtitles, and captions.

Logging events in media files

The enhanced distribution of digital content, in which a digital content distribution process is dynamically modeled, the digital content distribution process is invoked, and a serviced digital copy is provided to a recipient. Invoking the digital content distribution process further includes ingesting digital content, further including storing a digital master of the digital content in a digital vault, and servicing the digital copy of the stored digital master based on a servicing request received from the recipient.

Enhanced distribution of digital content

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Westlake Village, CA, United States of America

Ryan Kido