U.S. Patent 11165559 was awarded to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION on November 02, 2021 and is entitled “Machine learning based video compression.” The first named inventor is Vijay Ekambaram of Tamilnadu, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

An example operation may include one or more of connecting, by a miner node, to a blockchain network comprised of a plurality user nodes, reading, by the miner node, a smart contract generated by a user node of the plurality of the user nodes, wherein the smart contract specifies a location of a user video file, acquiring, by the miner node, the user video file from the location, generating, by the miner node, a profile vector of the user video file based on properties of the user video file, determining, by the miner node, a cluster that has similar profile vectors, applying, by the miner node, a compression algorithm associated with the cluster to the user video file to generate a compressed user video file, and sending, by the miner node, the compressed user video file to the user node of the plurality of the user nodes for a validation. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on January 07, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/240984 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11165559. The primary examiner was Jerome Grant, II.

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 150818 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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