US 11,687,627 B2
Media transit management in cyberspace
Hamid Majdabadi, Ottawa (CA); Ravithej Chikkala, Pflugerville, TX (US); Su Liu, Austin, TX (US); and Manjunath Ravi, Austin, TX (US)
Assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Filed by INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed on Aug. 3, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/392,814.
Prior Publication US 2023/0039068 A1, Feb. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 21/16 (2013.01); G06F 16/583 (2019.01); G06F 16/587 (2019.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01)
CPC G06F 21/16 (2013.01) [G06F 16/583 (2019.01); G06F 16/587 (2019.01); G06F 21/6272 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-based method of managing media transit in cyberspace, the method comprising:
receiving, from a participating user, one or more images and one or more pre-set configuration criteria regarding management of an image file, the one or more images containing objects and metadata including at least a time stamp and location where the one or more images were captured;
receiving a request from the participating user to monitor for an attempted sharing of the image file by at least one other user;
monitoring for the attempted sharing of the image file in response to receiving the request from the participating user;
determining whether each object in the one or more images matches each object in the image file and whether the time stamp and location of the one or more images match a time stamp and location of the image file; and
in response to determining each object in the one or more images matches each object in the image file and the time stamp and location of the one or more images match the time stamp and location of the image file:
identifying the at least one other user who is attempting to share the image file; and
correlating the one or more pre-set configuration criteria with the image file.