Thomson Licensing Assigned Patent

Thomson Licensing, Issy les Moulineaux, France, has been assigned a patent (9,130,918) developed by Picconi, Fabio, Paris, France, Varvello, Matteo, Middletown, NJ, and Diot, Christophe, Paris, France, for a “system and method for automatically verifying storage of redundant contents into communication equipments, by data comparison.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A method is intended for verifying storage of contents into communication equipments connected to at least one communication network. This method consists, when a first communication equipment stores a content and wants to verify that this content is still stored into a second communication equipment: i) in transmitting a first request, comprising at least an identifier of this content and first data representative of this content and requiring verification of the storage of this content into the second communication equipment, to an auxiliary communication equipment acting as an interface between the communication network and the second communication equipment, ii) in transmitting a second request, comprising at least the content identifier, to the second communication equipment, to require transmission of second data representative of the content to the auxiliary communication equipment, and in triggering a timeout having a chosen duration, and iii) if the auxiliary communication equipment has received the second data before expiration of this timeout, in comparing these received second data, possibly after having processed them, to the received first data, and in transmitting a message representative of the result of this comparison to the first communication equipment.“

The patent application was filed on September 15, 2010 (13/497,284).