U.S. Patent 11164218 was awarded to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited on November 02, 2021 and is entitled “Media resource allocation method, apparatus, and system, storage medium, and computer device.” The first named inventor is Minghao Xi of Shenzhen, . The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

This application includes a media resource allocation method, performed by any media resource allocation server in a blockchain system. In the method, media resource information is received from a media resource server. Media resources for a plurality of media resource request servers are allocated according to (i) media resource requirements of the plurality of media resource request servers, (ii) the media resource information, and (iii) a preset allocation rule. The transaction data generated in the media resource allocation process is stored into the target blockchain. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on July 16, 2020  as U.S. Patent Application 16/931295 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11164218. The primary examiner was Scott C Anderson.

Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited, who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 2738 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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