Method and apparatus for media streaming

WO2026125881A1PCT designated stage Publication Date: 2026-06-18BRITISH BROADCASTING CORP
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Authority / Receiving Office
WO · WO
Patent Type
Applications
Current Assignee / Owner
BRITISH BROADCASTING CORP
Filing Date
2025-12-12
Publication Date
2026-06-18

AI Technical Summary

⚠Technical Problem

Existing systems fail to efficiently scale the delivery of media, particularly object-based media, to a large number of heterogeneous devices, leading to inefficient use of GPU resources and sub-optimal performance.

⚗Method used

A method and apparatus that utilize a job scheduling algorithm to manage GPU resources efficiently by processing media requests from multiple devices cooperatively, ensuring that jobs are executed only once and results are reused across devices, while maintaining application-level coherence through experience and job IDs.

🎯Benefits of technology

This approach enables sub-linear scaling of computational resources, reducing redundancy and improving performance by reusing processed media results across multiple client devices, thus optimizing GPU usage and bandwidth.

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Abstract

A server arrangement for delivering media comprises two elements, a processor and a job processor. The processor is arranged to receive requests for media from multiple client devices across a network and to operate an instance of an operating system process that implements a scheduling algorithm. The a job processor is arranged to execute jobs under control of the scheduling algorithm operated by the processor. A cache is arranged to store intermediate results of jobs executed by the job processor. An encoder is arranged to receive the intermediate results from the cache and to encode the intermediate results as encoded media and to deliver the encoded media to multiple client devices. The scheduling algorithm is arranged to schedule jobs such that at least one intermediate result required for encoded media by multiple client devices may be executed once and delivered to multiple client devices in encoded media.
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