Automated Media Delivery System
AssigneeEquilibrium
InventorsSean Barger, Steve Johnson, Matt Butler, Jerry Destremps, David Pochron, Trent Brown
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Abstract
An automatic graphics delivery system that operates in parallel with an existing Web site infrastructure is provided. The system streamlines the post-production process by automating the production of media through content generation procedures controlled by proprietary tags placed by an author within URLs embedded within Web documents.
Claims21
A method in a host computer for developing transformation processing operations to optimize media content playback across multiple playback devices connected with the host computer in a network, the method comprising receiving requests from the multiple devices for concurrent playback of media content at a first quality level;
- determining a set of independent transformations of the media content that fulfill the requests at the first quality level;
- if transformations are required, determining whether processing resources available on the host computer are sufficient to perform the independent transformations;
- and if the processing resources are insufficient to perform the independent transformations, determining a set of dependent transformations that fulfill the requests at a second quality level within limits of the processing resources of the host computer.
A method in a host computer for developing transformation processing operations to optimize media content playback across multiple playback devices connected with the host computer in a network, the method comprising receiving requests from the multiple devices for concurrent playback of media content at a first quality level;
- determining a set of independent transformations of the media content that fulfill the requests at the first quality level;
- determining whether processing resources available on the host computer are sufficient to perform the independent transformations;
- and if the processing resources available on the host computer are sufficient to perform the independent transformations, performing the independent transformations to create a requested set of media streams;
- if the processing resources are insufficient to perform the independent transformations, determining a set of dependent transformations that fulfill the requests at a second quality level within limits of the processing resources of the host computer;
- and performing the dependent transformations to create a modified set of media streams;
- and transmitting the requested set of media streams or the modified set of media streams across the network.
A host computer system for performing transformative processing operations to optimize media content playback across multiple devices, which are connected with the host computer in a network, requesting concurrent playback of media content at a first quality level, the system comprising one or more media processing units;
- a policy engine module that determines a set of independent transformations of the media content that fulfill requests at the first quality level;
- determines whether processing resources of the media processing units are sufficient to perform the independent transformations;
- and if the processing resources are sufficient to perform the independent transformations, directs the media processing units to perform the independent transformations to create a requested set of media streams;
- and if the processing resources are insufficient to perform the independent transformations, determines a set of dependent transformations that fulfill the requests at a second quality level within limits of the processing resources;
- and directs the media processing units to perform the dependent transformations to create a modified set of media streams;
- and a network link that communicates with the network and transmits either the requested set of media streams or the modified set of media streams to the multiple devices.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.