Configurable Workflow Editor for Multimedia Editing Systems
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing multimedia content editing systems face challenges with slow download times for large content items like streaming video and lack of digital rights management tracking, as metadata is not connected with the content after editing or creating derivative works.
Innovation Solution
A distributed system with a global media hub (GMH) and media asset nodes (MAN) that allows for remote editing via a network, where the GMH centrally manages metadata and orchestrates workflows, and MANs store multimedia content and metadata, enabling efficient editing and derivative work creation with automatic notification of trigger events.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If content is stored centrally on a remote server, then digital rights management tracking is improved, but download times for large content items increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides content storage between central server (for metadata and DRM) and distributed peer nodes (for content data). This segmentation allows DRM tracking to remain centralized while content delivery becomes distributed, reducing download times through parallel access from multiple nodes.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention introduces a content delivery network intermediary layer that caches content from the central server and serves it to clients. This intermediary resolves the contradiction by maintaining centralized DRM control while providing fast local access through distributed caching nodes.
2Adaptability or versatility
If metadata is disconnected from content after editing, then editing flexibility is improved, but digital rights management tracking deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where metadata changes during editing automatically update DRM tracking information. This allows flexible editing operations while maintaining real-time synchronization of rights management data through automated feedback loops to the central server.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention embeds DRM tracking metadata within the content structure itself, creating a nested relationship where metadata is both separable for editing flexibility and integrated for tracking reliability. The nested metadata structure allows independent manipulation while preserving the parent-child relationship needed for DRM.
3Productivity
If a configurable workflow editor with automatic notification is implemented, then productivity is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The workflow editor implements self-service automation where the system automatically detects trigger events, determines required notifications, and sends them without user intervention. This self-service capability improves productivity while the automated nature actually reduces operational complexity despite the sophisticated underlying system.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary configuration of workflow rules and notification preferences before actual workflow execution. This preliminary setup creates reusable templates that simplify subsequent workflow operations, improving productivity while the one-time configuration effort masks the underlying system complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
A distributed system and methods for web-based multimedia content (MMC) including a global media hub (GMH) server computer (500) and a multiplicity of remote media asset node (MAN) server computers (510, 520, 530, 540, 550) and client terminals (515, 525, 535, 536, 537, 545, 555) for network-based coupling to the MAN for editing the MMC; the GMH includes a processing component, memory for storage of all metadata, and includes software operable thereon for orchestrating the processes that act on the MMC and metadata, and further includes a configurable workflow editor module having a messaging events function for notifying the user of the occurrence of user-predetermined at least one trigger event(s) within workflows through the system.