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Coordination and management of digital asset endorsements

Grant US12597003B2 Kind: B2 Apr 07, 2026

Assignee

Disney Enterprises, Inc.

Inventors

Adam D. Eivy, Dionysius Mavromatis, Katharine S. Navarre, Christiaan A. Cokas, Charles V. Pritchard

Abstract

A system includes a hardware processor and a memory storing software code. The hardware processor is configured to execute the software code to receive a request to track exercises of one or more right(s) associated with a digital asset p using a private key of an endorser of the digital asset, obtain the digital asset including an endorsement in the form of a cryptographically unique identifier referencing a public key corresponding to the private key and associated with a public persona of the endorser, and verify, using the public key, a present ownership of the digital asset. The hardware processor is further configured to execute the software code to track each of the exercises of the right(s), and identify, based on a smart contract governing the exercise(s) of the right(s), a respective fee for each of the exercises of the right(s).

CPC Classifications

G06Q 20/1235 G06Q 20/3829 G06Q 50/01 G06Q 2220/00

Filing Date

2022-10-04

Application No.

17960085

Claims

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