METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING DUPLICATES OF MULTIMEDIA DATA ITEMS IN SERVICE SYSTEM

摘要

A method of reducing duplicates of multimedia data items in a service system includes maintaining service system hash values for the multimedia data items of the service system; receiving a first multimedia data item; and hashing the received multimedia data item to provide a first hash value. The method further includes searching the first hash value from the service system hash values; and approving the received multimedia data item to the service system in response to the first hash value being not found when searching from the service system hash values.