Content Management System for Video Distribution
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Solution Overview
Problem
Subscribers face difficulties in searching and managing content from multiple providers due to separate interfaces and differing metadata structures, leading to cumbersome content navigation and storage inefficiencies.
Innovation Solution
An interactive video distribution system with a content management system that performs content metadata matching and data consolidation, creating a searchable index and unique identifiers to minimize duplicate content entries, and optimize storage and delivery across different content providers.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If each content provider maintains separate interfaces and metadata structures, then content delivery reliability is maintained, but user operation complexity increases and content search efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a content management system as an intermediary layer between multiple content providers and users. This mediator performs content matching by comparing content identifiers, titles, and descriptions across different providers, consolidates metadata from multiple sources, and presents a unified interface to users. The intermediary resolves the contradiction by maintaining separate provider interfaces behind the scenes while providing integrated access to users, thus preserving content delivery reliability while improving search efficiency and ease of operation.
2Adaptability or versatility
If duplicate content from multiple providers is stored separately, then content availability is improved, but storage efficiency deteriorates and operational complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies merging by consolidating content metadata from multiple providers into a unified content index. The content management system combines content identifiers, titles, descriptions, and other metadata attributes from different sources into a single structured index, eliminating redundant storage of identical content while maintaining references to original sources. This merging approach improves storage efficiency and reduces management complexity while preserving content availability through the consolidated index that can retrieve content from any provider.
3Measurement precision
If comprehensive metadata is collected from multiple providers, then content matching accuracy is improved, but data processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-processing and normalizing metadata from multiple content providers before actual content matching occurs. The content management system performs initial data cleaning, standardization, and structuring of metadata attributes (titles, descriptions, identifiers) in advance, creating a ready-to-query content index. This preliminary processing reduces the computational burden during actual content matching operations, thereby maintaining high matching accuracy while minimizing real-time data processing time when users search for content.
Data Source
AI summary
An interactive video distribution system can distribute video content to customer premises of a service provide. Content servers store video content items received from content providers. A content management server maintains a content index including content metadata describing the video content items. A request for content is received from customer premises equipment of a customer premises via a content distribution network. An iterative matching process is performed to match the request with content metadata in the content index to identify a matching video content item to deliver to the customer premises equipment in response to the request.