Patent ID: 6904185

Claim:
In a distributed network, a method of recursively linking a multiply modified multimedia asset to a digital negative of the multimedia asset, comprising: (a) modifying the digital negative of the multimedia asset to form a first resultant multimedia asset including at least a digital image that is at a lower resolution than the digital negative; (b) generating a first edit list based upon the modification of the digital negative; (c) associating the first edit list to the first resultant multimedia asset; (d) linking the first edit list to the digital negative of the multimedia asset; (e) modifying the first resultant multimedia asset to form a second resultant multimedia asset; (f) generating a second edit list based upon the modification of the first resultant multimedia asset; (g) associating the second edit list to the second resultant multimedia asset; and (h) linking the second edit list to the first resultant multimedia asset.