Streaming Segment Monitoring for Automatic Outage Recovery
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional video content streaming systems fail to detect and correct streaming outages in real time, leading to prolonged periods of 'dead' air, which are often not identified until hours or days later, affecting numerous users.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a fault detection system that monitors streaming content sources in real time, identifies source identifiers through headers and latencies, and initiates corrective actions such as restarting services or reconnecting servers to address streaming outages.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional streaming systems are used without real-time monitoring, then system complexity is reduced, but streaming reliability deteriorates due to undetected outages
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the system continuously monitors streaming segments from multiple sources, detects outages in real-time, and automatically switches to backup sources. This closed-loop monitoring and response system ensures streaming reliability without requiring complex manual intervention, resolving the contradiction between reliability and complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs self-diagnosis and self-correction by automatically detecting streaming outages and initiating corrective actions without external intervention. The automated monitoring and fault correction mechanisms allow the system to maintain itself, improving reliability while keeping operational complexity manageable.
2Reliability
If real-time monitoring and correction systems are implemented, then streaming reliability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The monitoring system is divided into distinct functional modules: segment reception modules, source identification modules, outage detection modules, and correction modules. Each module performs a specific function, making the overall complex system manageable through functional segmentation and independent operation of each component.
Solution Approach 2:
The system employs universal monitoring mechanisms that can detect multiple types of outages (network failures, source failures, transmission errors) using the same fundamental approach. The correction mechanisms are also multi-functional, capable of handling various failure modes through standardized procedures, reducing complexity through generalization.
3Loss of time
If manual detection methods are used for streaming outages, then system complexity is low, but loss of time increases due to delayed detection
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by continuously receiving and validating streaming segments before outages occur. The monitoring is proactive rather than reactive, detecting issues at their earliest stages and initiating corrections before they impact users, thereby minimizing detection time and maintaining service efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The monitoring and detection process operates continuously without interruption, constantly validating streaming segments and detecting outages in real-time. This continuous operation eliminates detection delays, ensuring immediate identification of issues while maintaining high streaming service efficiency through uninterrupted monitoring.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods and systems are disclosed configured to detect and correct content streaming outages. Streaming segments are monitored. A real time determination is made via data associated with the monitored streaming segments, sources of the streaming segments. A determination is made of an amount of time has passed since a streaming segment has been received from a first source. A determination or an inference is made as to whether a second streaming segment from the first source was scheduled for streaming during the time that has passed. At least partly in response to determining that the amount of time has passed and to determining or inferring that the second streaming segment from the first source was scheduled for streaming during the threshold amount of time after the streaming segment has been received from the first source, a corrective action is initiated to reestablish streaming of segments from the first source.