PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15937202
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["725", "115000"]

Abstract:
For broadcast-grade service level guarantees for linear video Playout, it is important for Playout systems and the associated server hardware to be extremely reliable. To accomplish this both the Playout software and server hardware are tightly integrated in on-premise implementations. Playout systems on the cloud allow for leveraging cloud servers dynamically for running Playout systems. The present invention proposes a system and method redundant, cost-effective for time-advanced, server-independent cloud Playout, which is useful in a variety of scenarios including but not limited to accomplishing seamless redundancy, optimizing operating costs by choosing different service provider/regions/servers. This is achieved by pre-playing the channel ahead of schedule, and then passing it to the output through an intelligent delay buffer. By switching Playout across multiple servers by instantiating new Playout software on another cloud server without impacting the linear output feed streamed out of the delay buffer we accomplish a server independent Playout system.

Claim (Index 7):
The system of  claim 1  wherein the system is configured for cost-optimization of Playout across its lifetime, via a cost arbitrage available in renting cloud server time, such that:\n a. The PORCH  801 , in addition to the Playout controls and other inputs, is configured to maintain information on the lowest bid price of available servers at every point in time  806 ; \n b. When instantiating the first PLYM_Instance_ 1  as the primary Playout  802 , the PORCH  801  is configured to look for the lowest-cost server and binds the PLYM_Instance_ 1  to that server; \n c. The PORCH  801  then is configured to Playout start to the PLYM_Instance_ 1  and is configured to send time 1 , which is the wall clock time for Playout start, as determined by playlist, at which time the DBM is configured to start output stream  804 ; \n d. The PORCH  801  is configured to continually look for the lower server price from the bidding data to optimize costs such that if there is a bid server available that is lower priced than the current server executing Playout_Instance_ 1 , then PORCH is configured to activate a switch of servers to move the Playout to a lower priced server, and shuts down the higher priced one; and \n e. The PORCH  801  is configured to accomplish the switch by starting PLYM_Instance_ 2  in parallel  805  to PLYM_Instance_ 1 , and once PLYM_Instance_ 2  has started generating output onto the delay buffer_ 2 , then PLYM_Instance_ 1  is shutdown and PLYM_Instance_ 2  takes the place of PLYM_Instance_ 1 , with the associated output delay buffer to DBM moved to delay buffer_ 1 .

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.62
- Patent Class: 725.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15776900', '11792288', '11764790', '12338719', '10065172']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4531166904883343
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5090288471626951
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4587079061557704
- Mean Citation Score: 152.99185400000005
- Max Citation Score: 154.80118000000004
- Similarity Product: 79.17759276709799

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test