Live-Edge Simulation with SVOD Segments for Client Evaluation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for evaluating client device performance during live events are limited by the availability of live content, preventing repeated evaluations and modifications, and pose risks of disrupting actual live events.
Innovation Solution
Simulating live event streaming using Subscriber Video on Demand (SVOD) content by calculating a latest segment number and generating a segment template to replicate live edge conditions, allowing repeated evaluations and modifications without affecting actual live events.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If live event content is used to evaluate client device performance, then real-time evaluation is possible, but repeated evaluations and modifications cannot be performed and disruption risks increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a simulated live event environment that copies the essential characteristics of real live events (segmented content delivery, timing constraints, edge conditions) using SVOD content instead. This allows evaluators to replicate live streaming scenarios without using actual live content, enabling repeated evaluations and modifications while maintaining evaluation reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-segmenting SVOD content and pre-configuring the simulated live event environment before evaluation begins. This allows all necessary components (content segments, timing parameters, edge conditions) to be prepared in advance, enabling repeated evaluations without waiting for actual live events.
2Measurement precision
If experimental algorithms are tested during actual live events, then real-world performance data is obtained, but the risk of disrupting live events increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a simulated live event environment as an intermediary between experimental algorithms and actual live events. This intermediary layer provides a safe testing ground that replicates real-world conditions without the harmful consequences of disrupting actual events, allowing precise performance measurement without exposure to live event risks.
Solution Approach 2:
The system converts the limitation of using SVOD content (not being truly live) into a benefit by eliminating disruption risks. The simulated environment maintains measurement precision through realistic segment delivery and timing constraints while transforming the potential harm of live event disruption into a beneficial risk-free testing environment.
3Reliability
If live event content is used for evaluation, then real-time streaming conditions are assessed, but evaluation can only occur during limited live events
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes the evaluation system universal by using SVOD content that can serve multiple evaluation purposes across different time periods. The same segmented content can be reused indefinitely to simulate various live event scenarios, allowing repeated evaluations and modifications without being constrained by the limited availability of actual live events, thereby improving evaluation efficiency while maintaining validity.
Data Source
AI summary
Various embodiments are directed towards a technique for simulating live event streaming on a client device that includes computing a latest available segment number associated with content to be downloaded from a content engine, determining a current segment to be downloaded from the content engine, determining that a segment number associated with the current segment is less than or equal to the latest available segment number, transmitting a request for the current segment to the content engine, and receiving the current segment from the content engine.