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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2006
Giovanni M. Agnoli, San Francisco, CA (US);
Christopher V. Pirazzi, Redwood City, CA (US);
Howard Chartock, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Kerrick Lindsey, Foster City, CA (US);
David Pawson, San Mateo, CA (US);
Jody Shapiro, San Jose, CA (US);
Daniel Weaver, Redwood City, CA (US);
Giovanni M. Agnoli, San Francisco, CA (US);
Christopher V. Pirazzi, Redwood City, CA (US);
Howard Chartock, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Kerrick Lindsey, Foster City, CA (US);
David Pawson, San Mateo, CA (US);
Jody Shapiro, San Jose, CA (US);
Daniel Weaver, Redwood City, CA (US);
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A system, method, and computer program product for publishing transcoded media content in response to publishing service requests from end users. A user request for media content, is processed intelligently, either by directing the processing of the request to one of a set of transcoding servers so as to effectively balance the load among the servers, or by directing the processing of the request to an appropriate alternative means for satisfying the request. Transcoding tasks can be prioritized. Moreover, the current load on any particular transcoding server can be monitored in conjunction with determination of the load to be created by a transcoding task, in order to facilitate server selection. Transcoding can be performed on-demand or in a batch mode. Alternatively, a request can be satisfied by distributing media content that has already been transcoded and is resident in cache memory in anticipation of such requests.