Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Assigned Patent

Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd., Zhejiang, China, has been assigned a patent (11,210,330) developed by Guo, Bin, Zhang, Long, and Xin, Anmin, Zhejiang, China, for “method and apparatus for storing, reading, and displaying plurality of multimedia files.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method and an apparatus for storing, reading, and displaying a plurality of multimedia files are disclosed. The method for storing a plurality of multimedia files includes: obtaining file description information of each of the plurality of multimedia files to be stored, determining a file identifier according to the file description information of each multimedia file to be stored, and storing the file identifier to the file identifier data block (S101); obtaining a file type and path information of each multimedia file to be stored, and storing the path information of each multimedia file to a file information data block corresponding to the file type, and sequentially storing, according to the storage order of respective file information data blocks, a file type corresponding to each file information data block to the overall information data block (S102); determining storage location information of each file information data block, and storing the storage location information to an index information data block (S103); and combining the file identifier data block, the overall information data block, the at least one file information data block, and the index information data block into an integrated file (S104). The method stores a plurality of various multimedia files as an integrated file, which makes it convenient for a user to view the files.”

The patent application was filed on June 21, 2017 (16/317,059).