Metadata-driven prioritization of audio, video, and data streams

A system for real-time prioritization of audio, video, or data streams, the system comprising:

• a metadata and feedback ingestion module configured to:
• receive externally generated metadata associated with a plurality of audio, video, or data streams captured by respective external sources, an aggregate bitrate of the plurality of streams being greater than an available capacity of a constrained network;
• and
• receive, normalize, and harmonize externally generated metadata produced by one or more logically distinct external analytical agents;
• an inference-agnostic prioritization engine configured to assign, to each stream, a priority score based on the externally-generated metadata without accessing, decoding, or analyzing raw audio, video, or data content of the stream;
• and
• a decision module configured to evaluate the priority scores together with externally supplied operational constraints and to generate prioritization output data identifying a prioritization output for each stream,
• wherein the prioritization output data is configured to be provided to one or more external downstream systems that, responsive to the prioritization outputs, selectively transmit, store, suppress, or route at least a subset of the streams over the constrained network.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause a system comprising the one or more processors to perform a method comprising:

• receiving, from one or more logically-independent external sources, externally-generated metadata corresponding to a plurality of streams, each of the plurality of streams comprising one or more of audio, video, or data, wherein an aggregate bitrate of the plurality of streams exceeds an available capacity of the constrained network;
• normalizing, aggregating, or harmonizing the externally-generated metadata;
• assigning, based on the normalized, aggregated, or harmonized externally generated metadata, a respective dynamic priority score to each stream without accessing, decoding, analyzing, or processing the audio, video, or data of the stream;
• evaluating operational constraints of external downstream systems;
• generating prioritization output data identifying, for each stream, a prioritization output determined according to the assigned priority scores and the operational constraints;
• and
• outputting the prioritization output data to the external downstream systems to cause the external downstream systems to selectively transmit at least a subset of the streams over the constrained network based on the prioritization outputs.