History

In 1999, I-CES laid the foundation for a universal system for reducing the number of bytes in digital audio, image and video files. In 2004, to protect their work, the creators found I-CES, a simplified joint stock company that now owns their research. In that same year, they performed a series of computer experiments on 11 image, audio and video file compression algorithms, revealing that their compression methods were highly effective. These results encouraged I-CES to file for three worldwide process patents based on three central topics:

• Desynchronizing the original criteria for reading audio and video files.
• Transforming color space in images and video files by reducing the brightness criteria.
• Compacting values and sets of values.

These three process patents, granted I-CES 51 exclusive rights, also called precedences, which were crucial to the future development of image, audio and video data compression.

• In May 2006, Marc Eric Gervais decided to file for three worldwide patents, because the research reports produced by the World Intellectual Property Organization did not mention any violation of existing patents or resemblance to the state of the art.
• In 2007, I-CES developed the computer programming for its algorithms and demonstration programs to verify their final performance and ensure that they could be translated into code.
• On September 29, 2008, the European Patent Office granted I-CES the status of International Inventor and delivered the first patent, which is currently being approved in the 27 countries of the enlarged European Union.
• In March 2009, I-CES filed for a fifth worldwide patent for contracting the original amplitudes of the values in digital image, audio and video files. This most recent patent application covers 7 main claims.

As of today, the technological assets of I-CES include 5 worldwide patents and the computer development done to evaluate the range of the company's inventions. In addition, combining I-CES's algorithms could lead to many program applications for Image, Video and Audio. All of these assets are protected under international copyright law, and all of them are the full and exclusive property of I-CES, a simplified joint stock company.