Remote Metadata Servicer for Streaming Media Exposure
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing media monitoring techniques face challenges in efficiently measuring exposure to streaming media across diverse devices and platforms, as they often require local processing of metadata, which consumes resources and is not cross-platform compatible, leading to inconsistent monitoring results and increased processing demands.
Innovation Solution
The proposed solution involves a system where metadata is retrieved from a remote metadata request servicer using a source URL and current time, reducing the burden on media devices and enabling cross-platform compatibility through JavaScript instructions, allowing for accurate and efficient media exposure measurement without the need for local metadata extraction.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If local metadata extraction is performed on media devices, then media exposure can be measured, but processing demands and resource consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the metadata processing function from the media device and relocates it to a remote server. The media device only needs to send media identification information and time data to the server, which then retrieves and processes the metadata remotely. This extraction eliminates local processing demands while maintaining measurement precision.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a remote server as an intermediary between the media device and the metadata source. The server acts as a mediator that receives requests from media devices, fetches metadata from content providers, and returns processed results. This intermediary approach transfers processing burden from resource-constrained devices to powerful servers.
2Measurement precision
If local metadata extraction is performed, then media monitoring can be implemented, but cross-platform compatibility is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal metadata retrieval system that operates across all platforms through a standardized protocol. The remote server handles platform-specific variations in metadata formats and content provider interfaces, allowing media devices from different platforms to use the same client application without modification. This multi-functional approach ensures consistent media monitoring capability across diverse devices.
3Measurement precision
If metadata is processed locally on each device, then media exposure data can be collected, but bandwidth usage increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple metadata retrieval operations into a single centralized process on the remote server. Instead of each media device independently fetching metadata (which would result in redundant network requests), the server consolidates requests, retrieves metadata once, and serves it to multiple devices. This merging dramatically reduces total bandwidth consumption while maintaining complete data collection.
Data Source
AI summary
An example apparatus includes at least one memory, instructions in the apparatus, and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to cause transmission of media, received from a service provider, to a media device in response to a first request for the media, the media including instructions to cause the media device to determine a source Uniform Resource Locator and transmit a second request for metadata of the media to the apparatus, and cause transmission, to the media device in response to the second request, of metadata associated with the source Uniform Resource Locator.