Recording Manager Content Verification for Media Conflicts
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Solution Overview
Problem
Media systems face recording conflicts when multiple desired recordings exceed the capacity of recording equipment, leading to prioritization issues, where last-minute changes in scheduled content can result in undesirable recordings due to equipment limitations.
Innovation Solution
The system determines whether the desired media asset is being transmitted correctly by comparing a sample from the received transmission to the scheduled higher-priority asset's content, using components like closed captions, audio clips, and video frames, and adjusts recording priorities accordingly to ensure the intended asset is recorded.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the system records the higher-priority media asset based on scheduled information, then the recording priority is maintained, but the actual desired content may not be recorded if last-minute changes occur
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by obtaining and comparing content samples from the received transmission against the scheduled higher-priority asset before finalizing the recording decision. This advance verification ensures that if the content has changed, the system can switch to recording the lower-priority asset instead, thereby maintaining recording accuracy without waiting for the recording to complete.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback by continuously monitoring the actual content being transmitted against the scheduled content information. By comparing content samples in real-time, the system receives feedback about whether the higher-priority asset is actually being transmitted as scheduled, and adjusts the recording decision accordingly to ensure the desired content is captured.
2Reliability
If the system verifies content by comparing samples from received transmission, then recording accuracy is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts only essential content samples (such as audio clips, video frames, or closed caption text) from the received transmission for comparison purposes, rather than analyzing the entire content stream. This extraction approach maintains high content matching accuracy while minimizing the computational complexity and processing requirements of the verification system.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for determining whether a media asset intended to be recorded is actually transmitted at the time and on the source of a scheduled higher-priority recording. Should the intended media asset not be transmitted in a desirable way, or not transmitted at all, the system will instead make a recording of a lower-priority recording that would not have been made because of a conflict. The systems and methods described herein, before making a higher-priority recording, obtain a sample of the media asset included in a received transmission at a scheduled time and compare it to content associated with the media asset scheduled for recording to determine whether to record the received transmission.