Automated Media Delivery Server with File Selection and Confirmation
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing process for delivering file-based media content is inefficient and time-consuming, requiring manual selection, scheduling, and confirmation of deliveries, with limited multi-track scheduling capabilities and difficulty in managing third-party tools and protocols, leading to significant user time consumption.
Innovation Solution
A web service server with an API provides a graphical user interface for specifying show details and recipients, automatically determining required files for delivery, using fast file transfer services and content security provisions to deliver media content efficiently and securely, with automated confirmation and error handling.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If manual process is used for selecting, scheduling, and confirming media content deliveries, then flexibility and control are maintained, but user time consumption increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables self-service automation where the delivery management system automatically selects deliverables, schedules deliveries, and sends confirmations without requiring manual user intervention for each task, while still allowing users to initiate and monitor the process through a simple interface
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-configuring deliverable profiles, watch folders, and delivery parameters in advance, so that when a user initiates a delivery, the system can automatically execute the pre-planned steps without requiring real-time manual decisions
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple watch folders are maintained for different profiles, then different deliverable formats can be managed, but user complexity and manual tracking increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements a universal delivery management interface that can handle multiple deliverable profiles and watch folders through a single unified system, eliminating the need for users to manually track and switch between different watch folders while maintaining support for various deliverable formats and specifications
3Reliability
If manual delivery confirmation is implemented, then delivery status can be tracked, but time consumption and operational burden increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements automated feedback mechanisms where delivery confirmations are automatically generated and sent to recipients, and delivery status is automatically tracked and updated in the system, providing reliable confirmation without requiring manual user actions for each delivery verification
Data Source
AI summary
A, method, apparatus, system, computer readable medium, and article of manufacture provide the ability to deliver a media content deliverable. Media content is selected. One or more clients that will receive the selected media content are selected. Independently from additional user input, one or more files are automatically and dynamically selected based on the selected media content and one or more selected clients. The selected files are scheduled for delivery to the clients. Delivery of the one or more files to the selected one or more clients is then confirmed.