Patent ID: 11928986
Assignee: SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 13:
14. An apparatus to verify content conversion for a secondary use of already-distributed audiovisual content data, the apparatus comprising:
a processor; and
memory connected to the processor, the memory storing a computer program to verify content conversion, the computer program comprising instructions executable by the processor that cause the apparatus to:
receive the already-distributed audiovisual content data and a checksum from a computer system,
wherein the checksum is generated and received from the computer system when the secondary use of the already-distributed audiovisual content data, is requested to the computer system,
wherein the received checksum was generated after the already-distributed audiovisual content data was converted to a target format;
convert the received already-distributed audiovisual content data to the target format to generate a converted content file in the target format,
wherein the already-distributed audio visual content data includes video and audio data, and
wherein the computer program comprising the instructions executable b the processor that cause the apparatus to convert to the target format enables reuse of same quality of the video and audio data in the already-distributed audio visual content data; and
generate a new checksum for the converted content file while the already-distributed audiovisual content data is being converted to the target format.