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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2009
Wendy Swanbeck, North Chelmsford, MA (US);
James O. Schreckengast, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Charles E. Parry, Andover, MA (US);
Anne C. Rourke, Lynnfield, MA (US);
Wendy Swanbeck, North Chelmsford, MA (US);
James O. Schreckengast, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Charles E. Parry, Andover, MA (US);
Anne C. Rourke, Lynnfield, MA (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for tracking digital assets stored on digital asset storage media including detecting availability of a reference asset storage medium containing digital assets at a first time; determining a reference medium identifier and digital asset identifiers; storing renditions of the digital assets in a cached storage area; and storing an association between the reference asset storage medium the reference medium identifier, the digital asset identifiers and the renditions of the digital assets in a database in a persistent storage area. The method further includes, at a second later time, detecting the availability of a candidate asset storage medium, determining a candidate medium identifier that uniquely identifies the candidate asset storage medium, and comparing the candidate medium identifier to the reference medium identifier to determine whether the candidate asset storage medium is the same as the reference asset storage medium.