Global Media Database for Digital Content Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Content providers face challenges in managing and promoting large numbers of digital content files, including streaming media, due to the need for technical expertise and efficient linking, updating, and promotion, especially as they start creating their own content and handling both internal and third-party streams.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that couples content providers to a Global Media Database (GMDB) for managing, linking, and promoting digital content, allowing submission of feed files with descriptive information, enabling access control, and using templates to ensure completeness, with features for searching, requesting, and managing feed files through a graphical user interface.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If service providers manage large numbers of content files from multiple content providers, then the system can serve more clients and provide greater content variety, but the device complexity and difficulty of managing client accounts increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments content management into separate functional modules: content providers upload content to their designated spaces, the GMDB automatically processes and indexes content from multiple providers, and clients access content through standardized interfaces. This modular architecture allows the system to handle content from multiple providers without proportionally increasing management complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The Global Media Database acts as an intermediary layer between content providers and clients. It automatically receives, processes, indexes, and manages content from multiple providers, shielding clients from the complexity of content variety while maintaining standardized access protocols. The GMDB mediates between diverse content sources and uniform client interfaces.
2Loss of information
If content providers submit detailed feed files with descriptive information, then the system can better organize and promote content, but the time and effort required for content submission increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides pre-configured feed file templates with all necessary descriptive information fields already structured. Content providers can submit content using these standardized templates, which automatically include required metadata fields such as title, description, keywords, and classification information. This preliminary structuring reduces the time required for submission while ensuring complete content description.
Solution Approach 2:
The feed file format uses standardized parameters and metadata fields that can be automatically populated or selected from predefined options. By changing the submission format to use structured parameters rather than free-text descriptions, the system enables faster processing while maintaining comprehensive content information through standardized data elements.
3Ease of operation
If the system automatically processes and indexes content from multiple providers, then content organization and accessibility improves, but the processing time and system resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements periodic batch processing for content indexing and metadata extraction, rather than continuous real-time processing. Feed files are processed at scheduled intervals, allowing the system to organize and index content in efficient batches. This periodic approach improves content accessibility over time while managing system resource usage more effectively than continuous processing.
Data Source
AI summary
The present invention describes a system and method of managing digital content received from content providers and for facilitating access to the digital content to many subscribers. The method includes receiving from the content providers incoming feed files where each feed file contains information describing the content. The method determines if the feed files are approved by applying a template to the feed files and also receives request files from the subscribers where each request file contains search criteria. The method provides one or more answer files in response to the request files where each answer file identifies feed files that meet the search criteria of a corresponding request file. The answer files are used to access or permit access to digital content on the web. In addition, a graphical user interface is described to manage, edit, promote and delete the feed files provided to the system.