Patent ID: 7912893
Filing Date: 2011-03-22
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of speculatively issuing a batch media provider request for particular media content from a media provider request scheduler to a media provider farm, comprising the steps of: (a) determining whether any pre-encodes have been requested by the media provider request scheduler; and (b) if any pre-encodes have been requested, issuing one media provider request to the media provider farm, otherwise, predicting a future publishing service request, and issuing a corresponding pre-encode batch media provider request based on prediction, wherein predicting the future publishing service is selected from a group consisting of: (i) determining whether to re-encode previously transcoded content and generating a higher quality output of the previously transcoded content; (ii) requesting content at a different data rate based on transcode records; and (iii) pre-transcoding content based on a publisher's request.