Workflow Manager Feedback Task for Media Processing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current network-based media processing technologies lack the ability to adapt media services to user feedback, limiting the efficiency of media processing and service expansion.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus that utilize feedback information from user terminals to manage media processing workflows, allowing for dynamic task configuration and optimization in network-based media processing systems.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional network-based media processing is used, then media processing can be performed on the network, but the system cannot adapt to user feedback and lacks service expansion capability
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a feedback task that receives feedback information from a media sink (user terminal) and delivers it to media processing tasks. This feedback mechanism enables the system to adapt media processing workflows based on user feedback, directly resolving the adaptability issue while maintaining manageable complexity through structured information flow.
Solution Approach 2:
The workflow manager is designed to handle multiple functions: managing media processing tasks, receiving feedback information, delivering feedback to appropriate tasks, and updating task information. This multi-functionality allows a single component to address adaptability needs without proportionally increasing overall system complexity.
2Productivity
If media processing workflows are made static, then system complexity is reduced, but network resource efficiency and service quality cannot be optimized
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes the media processing workflow dynamic by enabling the workflow manager to update task information based on feedback received from user terminals. This dynamic adjustment allows the system to optimize network resource efficiency and service quality in real-time, while the structured feedback mechanism keeps complexity manageable.
3Adaptability or versatility
If user feedback is incorporated into media processing, then service adaptability improves, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The feedback task serves as an intermediary component that receives feedback information from the media sink and delivers it to the appropriate media processing tasks. This intermediary structure simplifies the overall system architecture by creating a dedicated feedback handling pathway, reducing the complexity burden that would otherwise be distributed across multiple components.
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AI summary
A media content processing management method according to an embodiment of the disclosure includes: obtaining, from a network based media processing (NBMP) source, workflow information for media content processing; identifying whether to use a feedback task, based on the workflow information, obtaining, from a function repository, function information about a function of the feedback task or about a function of at least one media task for the media content processing, based on the workflow information, obtaining task information based on at least one of the workflow information and the function information, delivering the task information to each of tasks, obtaining client feedback information, and updating the task information based on the client feedback information, wherein the task information includes at least one of input information, output information, configuration information, or connection information of each of the tasks, and the connection information includes connection information of a media processing task and the feedback task, the media processing task using client assistance information from among the at least one media task.