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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2012
Vidur Apparao, Palo Alto, CA (US);
John Bandhauer, Aptos, CA (US);
Christopher Robert Waterson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Vidur Apparao, Palo Alto, CA (US);
John Bandhauer, Aptos, CA (US);
Christopher Robert Waterson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
An enhanced metadata structure and associated process is provided which captures and stores metadata gathered about the source and usage of a media asset or file. The source and usage metadata is integrated, such as by encoding within the enhanced media file, as the media asset is transferred and used. The integrated metadata accumulates, as a trail of source information and usage information in the enhanced media asset, and can be extracted upon arrival at a target computer system.