IP Library Granted Patent US 12,401,646
Granted Patent B2
US 12,401,646 · App. 18/123,045 · Granted Aug 26, 2025

Enhanced access to media, systems and methods

Inventors: Patrick Soon-Shiong (Los Angeles, CA); Andrew Konstantaras (Seattle, WA); John Wiacek (Los Angeles, CA); Nicholas James Witchey (Laguna Hills, CA)
Assignee: Nant Holdings IP, LLC
H04L63/10G06F16/21G06F16/31G06F16/383G06F21/602G06F2221/2141
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Patent No.
US 12,401,646
App. No.
18/123,045
Granted
Aug 26, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A system and method are described. An illustrative system enables operations such as: receiving new associated content from a user device and quantifying the new associated content via generating at least one new attribute-value pair object according to a multi-dimensional namespace and including at least some quantified attribute-value pairs determined from implementations of recognition algorithms executed on at least some of the new associated content. The operations may further include linking the at least one new attribute-value pair object into the linked list data structure and recording publication of the new associated content and the at least one new attribute-value pair object on a notarized ledger.

Claims (26)

1. A computer-based content distribution system, comprising:

at least one memory storing software instructions and a linked list data structure linking an original digital work comprising a game with associated game content via linked attribute-value pair objects; and

at least one processor coupled with the at least one memory and upon execution of the software instructions performs the following operations:

receiving new associated game content from a user device;

quantifying the new associated game content via generating at least one new attribute-value pair object according to a multi-dimensional namespace and including at least some quantified attribute-value pairs determined from implementations of recognition algorithms executed on at least some of the new associated game content, wherein the at least one new attribute-value pair object comprises a pointer to the new associated game content, wherein the at least one new attribute-value pair object comprises at least one similarity measure relative to the original digital work and determined, at least in part, from the at least some quantified attribute-value pairs, and wherein one or more rules associated with the new associated game content are triggered depending on a scope of the at least one new attribute-value pair, which are arranged in a hierarchical fashion to cause more relevant rules in the one or more rules to be executed before less relevant rules in the one or more rules;

linking the at least one new attribute-value pair object into the linked list data structure; and

recording publication of the new associated game content and the at least one new attribute-value pair object on a notarized ledger already having an entry for the original digital work, wherein the operation of recording the publication is performed according to a smart contract stored in the at least one memory and wherein the at least one new attribute-value pair object interacts with the smart contract.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise receiving a user subscription for the original digital work.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the user subscription permits a user account to view the new associated game content.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise generating a digital notification representing the new associated game content to a user subscribing to the original digital work.

5. The system of claim 4 , wherein the digital notification is generated upon satisfaction of notification rules triggering requirements and wherein a digital authentication token is also recorded along with the publication of the new associated game content and the at least one new attribute-value pair object on the notarized ledger.

6. The system of claim 5 , wherein the notification rules triggering requirements depend on values or attributes in the at least one new attribute-value pair object.

7. The system of claim 4 , wherein the digital notification representing the new associated game content is distributed via one or more communication channels.

8. The system of claim 7 , wherein the one or more communication channels include at least one of the following channels: a text-based communication channel, a video communication channel, an audio communication channel, a multimedia communication channel, an alerting channel, and a web-based communication channel.

9. The system of claim 1 , further comprising an original digital works database storing the original digital work.

10. The system of claim 1 , further comprising an associated game content digital works database storing the associated game content.

11. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise presenting an arrangement of the of at least the new associated content according to SNMP.

12. The system of claim 1 , wherein the original digital work comprises a game and wherein the game is subject to one or more rules defined in the new associated game content.

13. The system of claim 12 , wherein the new attribute-value pair object quantifies the game and the one or more rules.

14. The system of claim 12 , wherein the game comprises a geo-location-based game.

15. The system of claim 1 , wherein the smart contract stored in the at least one memory is associated with the original digital work and the notarized ledger.

16. The system of claim 15 , wherein the at least one new attribute-value pair object interacts with the smart contract via an Application Programming Interface (API).

17. The system of claim 1 , wherein the notarized ledger comprise at least one of the following: a private ledger, a centralized ledger, a semi-private ledger, a blockchain, a hashgraph ledger, and a distributed ledger.

18. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operation of linking the at least one new attribute-value pair object into the linked list data structure depends on the similarity measure satisfying similarity criteria related to the original digital work.

19. The system of claim 18 , wherein the similarity criteria depends on quantified attributes associated with the original digital work.

20. The system of claim 18 , wherein the new attribute-value pair object comprises a reason for linking the associated game content based on one or more similarity scores from the similarity measure.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 17, 2023
From: SOON-SHIONG, PATRICK
To: NANT HOLDINGS IP, LLC
Reel/Frame 063022/0614 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 17, 2023
From: KONSTANTARAS, ANDREW; WIACEK, JOHN; WITCHEY, NICHOLAS JAMES
To: NANTWORKS, LLC
Reel/Frame 063022/0623 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 17, 2023
From: NANTWORKS, LLC
To: NANT HOLDINGS IP, LLC
Reel/Frame 063022/0631 →
Continuity (3)
Continuation 17178924 · Feb 18, 2021
Provisional Application 62986953 · Mar 9, 2020
Related Publication 20230224301A1 · Jul 13, 2023
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