U.S. Patent 11153621 was awarded to AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P. on October 19, 2021 and is entitled “System and method for managing dynamic pricing of media content through blockchain.” The first named inventor is Gowrishankar Subramaniam Natarajan of Torrance, CA. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method that includes receiving, by a processing system including a processor, a pricing policy for streaming a media asset to a user; and recording, by the processing system, the pricing policy into a blockchain, wherein the pricing policy is used by a billing system to charge the user for streaming the media asset. Other embodiments are disclosed. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on May 14, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/412148 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11153621. The primary examiner was Sumaiya A Chowdhury.

AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 16621 total granted patents in the United States as of the date of this article. This blockchain patent has been cited 0 times by other U.S. patents according to our law firm research, and can be considered an innovative patent in the field of cryptocurrency and blockchain.

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