Orchestrating Network Resources for Content Delivery
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing content and service delivery systems face challenges in managing and delivering content across both wireline and wireless networks due to redundancy, disparate management systems, inflexibility, and difficulty in supporting new content types and extending capabilities, making it hard to provide content to diverse mobile devices.
Innovation Solution
The solution involves orchestrating network resources using Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) to detect access events and execute workflows for content aggregation, management, and delivery, enhancing flexibility and extensibility through a policy enforcer that manages interactions between network resources.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If dedicated components are used for each delivery channel, then delivery capability is improved, but device complexity increases and flexibility decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal platform architecture where a single set of network resources can serve multiple delivery channels (wireline, wireless, mobile devices) through orchestrated workflows. Instead of dedicated components for each channel, the system uses a common resource pool that can be dynamically allocated and configured for different content delivery scenarios, thereby reducing complexity while maintaining versatility.
Solution Approach 2:
The system employs dynamic orchestration of network resources based on real-time delivery requirements. Workflows can be dynamically created, modified, and executed to adapt to different content types, delivery channels, and device capabilities. This dynamic approach allows the platform to handle diverse delivery scenarios without requiring static dedicated components for each case.
2Reliability
If multiple dedicated management systems are used for different networks, then network-specific control is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates due to redundancy
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple network management functions into a unified orchestration layer that manages wireline, wireless, and mobile network resources through a single interface. This consolidation eliminates redundant management systems while maintaining network-specific control policies through workflow-based management, thereby improving ease of operation without sacrificing reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an orchestration intermediary layer that sits between content management and network resources. This intermediary handles the complexity of multi-network management by translating high-level content delivery requests into network-specific operations, shielding users from underlying network complexities while ensuring reliable network-specific control.
3Stability of the object's composition
If fixed platform architecture is used, then stability is improved, but adaptability to new content types deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The platform uses dynamic workflow definitions that can be created, modified, and executed without changing the underlying platform architecture. New content types and delivery scenarios can be accommodated by defining new workflows that orchestrate existing network resources, maintaining platform stability while enabling adaptability to new content types through configurable process definitions.
4Device complexity
If customizing functionality is difficult, then device complexity is reduced, but productivity deteriorates due to inability to extend capabilities
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-configures network resources and workflow templates for common content delivery scenarios. This preliminary setup allows rapid deployment of new services and content types without requiring complex customization, enabling quick extension of capabilities to generate new revenue streams while keeping the platform structure relatively simple.
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AI summary
Methods, systems, and machine-readable media are disclosed for orchestrating behavior of network resources to provide a content and/or service delivery suite. According to one embodiment, orchestrating behavior of network resources to provide a content and/or service delivery suite can comprise detecting an access of the content or service delivery suite. Orchestration can be applied to the one or more network resources based on the access of the content or service delivery suite. At least one workflow on at least one of the one or more network resources can be executed based on the orchestration. For example, the at least one workflow can comprise a workflow for performing content aggregation, a workflow for performing management of content, a workflow for performing management of a service, a workflow for performing delivery of content or a service, etc.