Distributed Media Asset Nodes for Faster Editing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing multimedia content editing systems face challenges with slow download times for large content items like streaming video and full-length movies, and lack effective digital rights management, particularly in managing metadata associated with edited or derivative works.
Innovation Solution
A system comprising a global media hub (GMH) and media asset nodes (MANs) that enable efficient multimedia content editing and storage, where the GMH controls orchestration processes and metadata, while MANs store content closer to clients for faster processing, and unique identifiers are used for metadata management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multimedia content is stored on a centralized server computer, then digital rights management and metadata control are improved, but download times and processing speed deteriorate due to distance and network bandwidth limitations
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the centralized server into multiple distributed storage nodes connected via network, where each node stores portions of multimedia content. This segmentation allows clients to access content from geographically closer nodes, reducing download time while the distributed architecture maintains centralized metadata control for digital rights management.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a distributed file system as an intermediary layer between clients and storage nodes. This intermediary manages content distribution, tracks metadata, and enforces digital rights management policies across the distributed network, enabling fast local access while maintaining centralized control.
2Extent of automation
If multimedia content is stored remotely on a server, then centralized control and metadata management are improved, but editing speed and accessibility deteriorate due to network dependency
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the centralized server functionality into distributed storage nodes that can be accessed locally by clients. This allows editors to access and manipulate multimedia content from local nodes without continuous network dependency, improving editing speed while the distributed file system maintains centralized metadata management and control.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements preliminary loading of multimedia content from distributed storage nodes into local client memory before editing begins. This preliminary action reduces network dependency during the editing process, allowing faster local access and manipulation while the distributed file system maintains centralized control over metadata and digital rights.
3Ease of operation
If large multimedia files are transmitted over the network for editing, then remote accessibility is improved, but network bandwidth consumption and transmission time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements local quality by caching frequently accessed multimedia content and metadata in local client memory or distributed storage nodes geographically close to clients. This allows remote accessibility without continuous network transmission, reducing bandwidth consumption while maintaining ease of operation for approved users.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates local copies of multimedia content in distributed storage nodes and client memory, allowing remote accessibility without repeated network transmissions. The distributed file system manages these copies, ensuring data consistency and reducing network bandwidth consumption while maintaining ease of access for authorized users.
Data Source
AI summary
A distributed system and methods for web-based multimedia content including a global media hub (GMH) server computer (500) and a multiplicity of remote media asset node (MAN) server computers (510, 520, 530, 540, 550) and client computer terminals (515, 525, 535, 536, 537, 545, 555), with the client or customer computers being constructed and configured for network-based coupling to at least one of the MAN server computers for editing a browse copy of the MMC stored at the MAN. The GMH server computer includes processing component, memory for storage of all the metadata, and includes software operable thereon for orchestrating the processes that act on the MMC and metadata, including the operations and actions that are initiated by the client computer terminals for acting on the MAN-based MMC.