Cloud Content Assembly via Virtualized Infrastructure Sharing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional linear content assembly models are financially and infrastructurally prohibitive for creating multiple customized linear channel streams due to the need for dedicated resources and infrastructure, limiting the ability to tailor programming content to diverse viewer preferences effectively.
Innovation Solution
A cloud-based content assembly system utilizing a virtualized platform that shares infrastructure resources to concurrently produce multiple customized linear channel streams from a single assembly template, enabling dynamic scalability and reducing the need for extensive infrastructure build-out.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional linear content assembly models are used to create multiple customized linear channel streams, then each stream can be tailored to specific viewer preferences, but the infrastructure cost and operational complexity increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent consolidates multiple dedicated content assembly platforms into a single shared infrastructure platform. This platform uses virtualization technology to create multiple virtual assembly environments that can simultaneously produce different customized linear channel streams. The merging of physical resources with virtualized logical resources resolves the contradiction by maintaining content customization capability while dramatically reducing infrastructure complexity and cost.
Solution Approach 2:
The shared infrastructure platform is designed to perform multiple functions - it can assemble different types of content streams (sports, news, entertainment, etc.) with different customization parameters (regional preferences, demographic targeting, time-based variations) using the same physical resources. This multi-functionality allows a single platform to replace what previously required multiple specialized platforms, thereby reducing infrastructure complexity while maintaining adaptability.
2Reliability
If dedicated resources are allocated for each customized linear channel stream, then content quality and performance are maintained, but financial cost and infrastructure burden increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates virtual copies of the content assembly environment through virtualization. Instead of requiring physical duplicate infrastructure for each customized stream, the system creates software-based virtual instances that can be instantiated, configured, and terminated as needed. These virtual copies share the underlying physical infrastructure (processors, memory, storage, networking) while maintaining independent operational capabilities, thus preserving content assembly performance while reducing the quantity of physical resources required.
Solution Approach 2:
The virtualized platform provides dynamic resource allocation where infrastructure resources can be flexibly assigned to different virtual assembly environments based on current demand. Resources can be scaled up or down, migrated between virtual environments, or shared dynamically among multiple streams. This dynamic allocation maintains reliable content assembly performance during peak demand while minimizing resource consumption during lower utilization periods, resolving the contradiction between performance and resource quantity.
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AI summary
There is provided a method for use by a cloud based content assembly system having a memory and a processor for assembling multiple customized linear channel streams from an assembly template. The method comprises selecting, using the processor, the assembly template from the memory, identifying the customized linear channel streams to be produced using the assembly template, and generating a virtualized assembly environment for each of the customized linear channel streams. The method further comprises provisioning each virtualized assembly environment with content assets corresponding respectively to its customized linear channel stream, and assembling the customized linear channel streams using the respective virtualized assembly environments. The cloud based content assembly system is configured to enable substantially concurrent use of shared infrastructure resources by the virtualized assembly environments.