Parallel Data Paths for Media and Context Transmission
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing communication infrastructure struggles to meet the increasing demand for high data rate and low-latency communications, particularly in areas not connected to a global network.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method that involves a source node receiving a media file from a client device, obtaining contextual information by accessing or generating it based on metadata, and transmitting the media file over a high-latency data path while sending the contextual information over a low-latency data path, allowing the contextual information to arrive at the destination node prior to the media file.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If media files are transmitted over high-latency data paths to ensure high bandwidth, then data transmission capacity is improved, but transmission delay increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the media transmission into two separate data paths: a high-latency path for transmitting the actual media file content (audio/video data) and a low-latency path for transmitting contextual information (metadata, descriptors, indexes). This segmentation allows each path to be optimized for its specific function, resolving the contradiction between bandwidth requirements and latency constraints.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements preliminary action by transmitting contextual information about the media file (such as metadata, descriptors, and indexes) ahead of the actual media content through the low-latency path. This allows the receiving system to prepare processing routines and data structures in advance, reducing the effective processing latency when the high-latency media file arrives.
2Productivity
If contextual information is transmitted separately to arrive prior to media files, then processing efficiency is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an additional dimension to the transmission system by implementing parallel data paths with different latency characteristics. Instead of attempting to optimize a single path, the system uses multiple dimensions (high-latency/high-bandwidth path and low-latency/low-bandwidth path) to simultaneously satisfy conflicting requirements for media file transmission and contextual information delivery.
Data Source
AI summary
The present technology discloses communication in a communications network. A source node receives a media file from a client device in the communications network. Contextual information in the file is obtained that is descriptive of content in the medial file. When a match to the media file is found, the contextual information is accessed from storage. Otherwise, the contextual information is generated by the source node by extracting attributes from metadata in the media file. The media file is then transmitted over a first data path, and the contextual information is transmitted over a second data path, where the first data path has a higher latency than the second data path such that the contextual information arrives at the destination node prior to the media file.