Multi-Component Content Asset Transfer with Reference-Based Validation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing solutions provide all content items of a content asset simultaneously, which can lead to inefficiencies and challenges in managing and validating individual components of the asset during the ingestion process.

Innovation Solution

A monitoring agent determines the receipt of a manifest and generates references for each content item, monitors storage for the items, and modifies their state upon delivery to an ingestion process, ensuring all items are validated and processed individually.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If all content items are provided simultaneously to the ingestion process, then the ingestion process can process the complete content asset, but individual content items cannot be validated and managed separately

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveIndividual content item validation and managementVSAvoidContent asset processing efficiency

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the content asset into multiple content items, each with its own reference file that can be independently monitored and validated. The manifest file lists all content items with their references, allowing the system to track and manage individual items separately while processing the complete asset.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

2Reliability

If a monitoring agent tracks individual content items using reference files, then individual validation is enabled, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveContent item validation integrityVSAvoidMonitoring agent structure

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces reference files as intermediary elements between the content items and the monitoring agent. These reference files store metadata about content items (such as checksums, locations, and status) and serve as mediators that simplify the monitoring process. The monitoring agent reads from and writes to these reference files rather than directly managing complex content item states.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Measurement precision

If the monitoring agent modifies reference states upon content item delivery, then processing status is tracked accurately, but operations on reference files increase

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveContent item receipt detection accuracyVSAvoidReference file operation efficiency

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses parameter changes in the reference files to track content item status. The reference files contain metadata parameters (such as status flags, checksums, and timestamps) that are modified when content items are received or processed. By changing these parameters rather than creating new files or complex data structures, the system achieves accurate tracking with minimal operational overhead.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS20250335400A1Multi-component content asset transfer

Publication Date: 2025.10.30 COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT LLC

AI summary

Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for multi-component asset transfer. A plurality of references can be generated from a manifest of a content asset. A monitoring agent can determine when a content item for the content asset is received and modify the state of the corresponding reference.