Third-Party Video Delivery Prioritization via Intermediary Platform
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Solution Overview
Problem
Third-party video content delivery over service provider networks often lacks prioritization, resulting in delayed and lower quality streaming due to inadequate integration with service provider infrastructure, leading to a diminished user experience and challenges in meeting customer demands.
Innovation Solution
A content delivery platform that interacts with service provider networks and content delivery networks to assign higher delivery priority and quality to third-party content, enabling direct access and optimized transport, matching the priority and quality of native network content through admission control policies and adaptive transcoding.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If third party content is delivered over service provider networks without integration, then network infrastructure complexity is reduced, but content delivery priority and quality deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a service provider network as an intermediary between third party content delivery networks and user devices. This intermediary enables integrated content delivery with prioritization while maintaining separate content provider and network provider systems, thus resolving the contradiction between infrastructure simplicity and delivery reliability
Solution Approach 2:
The service provider network performs multiple functions: it acts as both a transport network for user data and as an integrated content delivery infrastructure for third party content. This multi-functionality allows the network to provide prioritized content delivery without requiring separate dedicated infrastructure
2Device complexity
If third party content is delivered without integration with service provider infrastructure, then system integration complexity is reduced, but content delivery speed and quality deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The service provider network serves as a mediator that enables high-speed content delivery through its integrated infrastructure without requiring direct complex integration between content providers and end-user networks, thus maintaining system simplicity while achieving fast delivery
Solution Approach 2:
The service provider network pre-establishes content delivery paths and prioritization mechanisms in advance, so that when third party content needs to be delivered, it can be rapidly transmitted through pre-configured high-speed paths without real-time negotiation or complex integration
3Ease of operation
If third party content lacks prioritization in network delivery, then network resource allocation simplicity is maintained, but user experience quality deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies differentiated quality treatment locally to content packets based on their type and priority level. Third party content packets are marked with priority indicators that trigger specific handling at network nodes, enabling quality prioritization without requiring complete reconfiguration of network resource allocation
Data Source
AI summary
An approach for enabling third party video content to be assigned a higher priority for delivery over a service provider network is described. A content delivery platform determines whether a third party content provider or video content to be delivered fulfill one or more criteria for permitting the content delivery system direct access to a video on demand network of a network provider. The content delivery platform then assigns a higher delivery priority to the video content based on the direct access of the video on demand network by the content delivery system.