Patent ID: 11917034
Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A signaling method for generating a Network-Based Media Processing (NBMP) workflow in a cloud-based platform for a media processing application, the method comprising:
determining an NBMP task among a plurality of NBMP tasks in an NBMP workflow of the media processing application;
identifying a function from a function repository to be used by the NBMP task;
associating the function with an instance identifier, the instance identifier uniquely distinguishing an instance of the function in the NBMP task from other instances of the function in other NBMP tasks among the plurality of NBMP tasks;
obtaining a configuration descriptor data structure of the function from the function repository;
determining a set of restrictions for the instance of the function in the NBMP task;
generating a function-restrictions data structure by applying the set of restrictions to and use a same format as the configuration descriptor data structure, the function-restrictions data structure being uniquely identified by the instance identifier; and
constructing a process descriptor for the NBMP workflow comprising the function-restrictions data structure paired with the instance identifier for signaling instance-dependent restrictions of the function to an NBMP workflow manager.