Content Translation Router for Parallel Media Format Adaptation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing media content delivery systems face challenges in efficiently managing and delivering media content across diverse formats, leading to slow content delivery, increased storage needs, and system complexity due to the variety of source and target formats.
Innovation Solution
A content delivery system utilizing a content translation router that concurrently modifies media content files to be compatible with different client formats, enabling parallel transcoding and transrating, and centralizing content processing to reduce system complexity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If content is converted from source format to target format, then compatibility with different media players is improved, but processing time and computational intensity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-converts content to multiple target formats in advance, so when a user requests content, the converted versions are already ready for immediate delivery. This eliminates the need for real-time conversion and significantly reduces processing time while maintaining compatibility across different media players
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of converting the original content file, the system creates copies of the content in different formats. These format-specific copies are stored and served to different media players, allowing simultaneous availability of multiple formats without repeatedly processing the original source content
2Adaptability or versatility
If content is converted to multiple formats, then availability to different clients is improved, but storage requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs format conversion in advance and stores the converted content in a structured manner, allowing multiple clients to access different formats from pre-processed versions rather than converting on-demand, which reduces repeated storage needs
Solution Approach 2:
The content translation router serves multiple functions: it translates content formats, routes content to appropriate clients, and manages a library of pre-converted content. This multi-functional approach consolidates what would otherwise require separate systems, reducing overall storage and processing requirements
3Adaptability or versatility
If content processing is performed for multiple formats, then client compatibility is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines content translation and content routing functions into a single integrated content translation router. This consolidation reduces system complexity by eliminating the need for separate conversion servers and routing components, while maintaining the ability to handle multiple formats and clients efficiently
Solution Approach 2:
The content translation router acts as an intermediary component between content sources and various media players. It handles all format conversion and routing decisions centrally, simplifying the overall system architecture by providing a single point of coordination for diverse format requirements
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AI summary
A system for routing media content files having different format characteristics to a plurality of clients over a communication network includes a content translation router. The content translation router is capable of retrieving the content files. In addition, the content translation router includes processing modules for concurrently modifying content files having differing format characteristics to be compatible for transmission over the communication network for viewing at different ones of the clients.