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US 8,381,110 B2Granted
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.
Claims10
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:
- determining capabilities of the playback devices for processing a media stream;
- receiving requests from the multiple devices for concurrent playback of media content at a first quality level, wherein the quality level is measured in terms of each of the following:
- a selected compression format of the media content;
- a selected bit rate of the media content;
- and
- an image resolution of the media content;
- 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;
- if the processing resources available on the host computer are sufficient to perform the independent transformations, the method further comprises performing the independent transformations;
- monitoring available bandwidth of the network;
- determining whether a requested set of media streams resulting from the independent transformations is transmissible within the available bandwidth of the network;
- and if the requested set of media streams is not transmissible within the available bandwidth of the network, determining the set of dependent transformations such that a modified set of media streams resulting from the set of dependent transformations is transmissible within the available bandwidth of the network;
- 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;
- determining whether the capability of each of the playback devices is sufficient to process a requested media stream resulting from the independent transformations;
- and
- if not, determining whether the capability of each of the playback devices is sufficient to process a requested media stream resulting from the dependent transformations.
13 more elements
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:
- determining capabilities of the playback devices for processing a media stream;
- receiving requests from the multiple devices for concurrent playback of media content at a first quality level, wherein the quality level is measured in terms of each of the following:
- a selected compression format of the media content;
- a selected bit rate of the media content;
- and
- an image resolution of the media content;
- 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;
- monitoring available bandwidth of the network;
- determining whether the requested set of media streams resulting from the independent transformations is transmissible within the available bandwidth of the network;
- and if the requested set of media streams is not transmissible within the available bandwidth of the network, determining the set of dependent transformations such that the modified set of media streams resulting from the set of dependent transformations is transmissible within the available bandwidth of the network;
- 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;
- 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;
- determining whether the capability of each of the playback devices is sufficient to process a requested media stream resulting from the independent transformations;
- and
- if not, determining whether the capability of each of the playback devices is sufficient to process a requested media stream resulting from the dependent transformations.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.