Programmable Renderer Composition to Reduce Media Network Usage

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing real-time media communication systems face challenges in efficiently composing and mixing media feeds while accommodating supplementary information and visual effects, leading to increased processing costs and limited flexibility, especially when recording or broadcasting.

Innovation Solution

Implementing a Programmable Renderer Service Application (PRSA) that generates a single composed media feed incorporating sender feeds and supplementary information, reducing network resource usage by sending a unified stream to each participant, and allowing programmable control over composition.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If all individual media streams are sent to each participant in real-time media communications, then each endpoint can arrange media streams flexibly, but network resource usage and processing costs increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveflexibility in arranging media streamsVSAvoidnetwork resource usage

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges multiple individual media streams into a single composed media feed that includes all sender feeds and supplementary information. This composed feed is then sent to each participant, reducing network bandwidth consumption while maintaining the ability to present multiple streams through programmable composition and mixing at the server side

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Loss of energy

If a Programmable Renderer Service Application is implemented to generate a single composed media feed, then network resource usage is reduced, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvenetwork resource usageVSAvoidprocessing system complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of energyVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a Programmable Renderer Service Application as an intermediary component that receives individual media streams, composes them into a unified feed with supplementary information, and distributes it to participants. This intermediary handles the complexity of media composition centrally, simplifying endpoint devices while maintaining flexible media arrangement capabilities

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The Programmable Renderer Service Application performs multiple functions: receiving individual media streams, mixing and composing them, integrating supplementary information, and distributing the composed feed. This multi-functional component consolidates processing tasks that would otherwise be distributed across multiple systems, managing complexity through functional integration

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS12368763B2Systems and methods for providing media communication programmable services

Publication Date: 2025.07.22 VONAGE BUSINESS INC

AI summary

Systems and methods for providing real-time media communication services to make use of a software application resident on a server that receives the media feeds of multiple sending participants, and generates a single composed media feed that includes media feeds of the sending participants and that sends the composed media feed to other computing services for manifold purposes like recording, re-broadcasting and/or re-transmission to remote computing devices of multiple real-time media communication participants. The composed media feed can include supplementary information in addition to the media feeds of live participants. This supplementary information is provided by means of API configurable programmatic code that is then executed and used as the software application resident on the server.