Patent ID: 8745574

Claim:
A system for producing a schedule for media content ingestion, said system comprising: a memory area associated with a content ingestion system, said memory area storing workstream data identifying a plurality of media content types each having a plurality of tasks associated therewith, said memory area further storing historical transaction data associated with a plurality of publishers; and a processor programmed to: receive a content submission request from a publisher, said content submission request identifying at least one of the plurality of media content types in the workstream data stored in the memory area, said content submission request further identifying a target completion date; calculate, based on previous content submissions from the publisher, a duration estimate for each of the plurality of tasks associated with the media content type in the received content submission request; adjust the calculated duration estimates for the plurality of tasks based on the historical transaction data stored in the memory area, wherein the processor is programmed to adjust the calculated duration estimates at least by weighting the calculated duration estimates based on a global average of the historical transaction data; determine a first start date and a first end date for each of the plurality of tasks based at least on the adjusted duration estimates and the target completion date; determine a second start date and a second end date for each of the plurality of tasks based on a service level agreement associated with the publisher; and present the plurality of tasks associated with the media content type in the received content submission request, the determined start dates, and the determined end dates to the publisher.