Method and system for facilitating delivery of recorded data over a network

• US 10,200,730 B2
• Filed: 09/20/2016
• Issued: 02/05/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Wipro Limited
• Original Assignee: Wipro Limited
• Inventors: Natarajan, Gowrishankar Subramaniam
• Primary Examiner(s): Dubasky, Gigi L
• Application Number:
  US15/270,011
• Publication Number:
  US 20180027273A1
• Time in Patent Office: 868 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2181 comprising remotely distributed storage units, e.g. when movies are replicated over a plurality of video servers distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS], H04L67/1097
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2225 Local VOD servers
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23109 by placing content in organized collections, e.g. EPG data repository details of retrieval of video data and associated meta data in video databases G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/235 Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2393 involving handling client requests scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests H04L67/60
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2402 Monitoring of the downstream path of the transmission network, e.g. bandwidth available traffic monitoring in data switching networks H04L43/00; monitoring data switching networks utilization H04L43/0876
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2407 Monitoring of transmitted content, e.g. distribution time, number of downloads arrangements for monitoring programmes for broadcast or for distribution combined with broadcast H04H20/14
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/262 Content or additional data distribution scheduling, e.g. sending additional data at off-peak times, updating software modules, calculating the carousel transmission frequency, delaying a video stream transmission, generating play-lists scheduling strategies for dispatcher in multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/4881; arrangements for scheduling broadcast services or broadcast-related services H04H60/06; flow control in packet networks H04L47/10; establishing a time schedule or organising the servicing of application requests H04L67/62
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2665 Gathering content from different sources, e.g. Internet and satellite
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4334 Recording operations recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4532 involving end-user characteristics, e.g. viewer profile, preferences monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/472 End-user interface for requesting content, additional data or services; End-user interface for interacting with content, e.g. for content reservation or setting reminders, for requesting event notification, for manipulating displayed content end-user interfaces for retrieving video data from a database G06F16/739; network services for supporting unicast streaming H04L65/612
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4755 for defining user preferences, e.g. favourite actors or genre retrieval personalisation and generation of user profiles for the retrieval of video data G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/632 using a connection between clients on a wide area network, e.g. setting up a peer-to-peer communication via Internet for retrieving video segments from the hard-disk of other client devices broadcast-related systems characterised by transmission among terminal devices H04H60/80; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a method and system for facilitating the delivery of recorded data over a network by a data delivery data. The data delivery system receives user request from at least one requesting user device for viewing recorded data and also one or more parameters from at least one requesting user device and a plurality of recording user devices. Based on the received one or more parameters the data delivery system determines a set of recording user devices from the plurality of recording user devices and initiates delivery of recorded data from the set of the recording user devices to the at least one requesting user device. The data delivery system monitors progress of the delivery at predefined intervals of time and re-initiates the delivery of one or more segments of the recorded data based on the monitoring for facilitating delivery of recorded data over a network.

Claims

1. A method for facilitating delivery of recorded data over a network, the method comprising:

receiving, by a data delivery system, user request from at least one requesting user device for viewing recorded data;

receiving, by the data delivery system, one or more parameters from the at least one requesting user device and a plurality of recording user devices;

determining, by the data delivery system, a set of recording user devices from the plurality of recording user devices based on the received one or more parameters;

initiating, by the data delivery system, delivery of recorded data from the set of the recording user devices to the at least one requesting user device;

monitoring, by the data delivery system, progress of the delivery of the recorded data at predefined intervals of time, wherein the monitoring comprises monitoring uplink network conditions of the set of the recording user devices and downlink network conditions of the at least one requesting user device;

determining, by the data delivery system, one or more lost segments and one or more missing segments of the recorded data based on the monitoring; and

selectively re-initiating, by the data delivery system, the delivery of the one or more lost segments and the one or more missing segments of the recorded data from the set of the recording user devices for facilitating delivery of the recorded data over the network based on the uplink network conditions of the set of the recording user devices and the downlink network conditions of the at least one requesting user device, wherein along with the recorded data, additional data is provided to the at least one requesting user device based on at least one of a time of the user request and a location of the at least one requesting user device.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the one or more parameters comprises location data, user information of the at least one requesting user device, network data, Central Processing Unit (CPU) usage of the plurality of recording user devices, time and duration of the recorded data, and content information.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the additional data is further based on a user profile, and wherein the additional data comprises one or more advertisements.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein monitoring the progress of the delivery comprises monitoring the content information, network data and location data of the at least one requesting user device and the set of the recording user devices.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein initiating the delivery of requested data comprises determining availability of the set of the recording user devices.

6. The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein determining the availability of the set of the recording user devices comprises sending a request to the set of the recording user devices for hosting the at least one requesting user device.

7. A data delivery system for facilitating delivery of recorded data over a network comprising:

a processor; and

a memory communicatively coupled to the processor, wherein the memory stores processor instructions, which, on execution, causes the processor to;

receive user request from at least one requesting user device for viewing recorded data;

receive one or more parameters from the at least one requesting user device and a plurality of recording user devices;

determine a set of recording user devices from the plurality of recording user devices based on the received one or more parameters;

initiate delivery of recorded data from the set of the recording user devices to the at least one requesting user device;

monitor progress of the delivery of the recorded data at predefined intervals of time, wherein the monitoring comprises monitoring uplink network conditions of the set of the recording user devices and downlink network conditions of the at least one requesting user device;

determine one or more lost segments and one or more missing segments of the recorded data based on the monitoring; and

selectively re-initiate the delivery of the one or more lost segments and the one or more missing segments of the recorded data from the set of the recording user devices for facilitating delivery of the recorded data over the network based on the uplink network conditions of the set of the recording user devices and the downlink network conditions of the at least one requesting user device, wherein along with the recorded data, additional data is provided to the at least one requesting user device based on at least one a of time of the user request and a location of the at least one requesting user device.

8. The data delivery system as claimed in claim 7, wherein the one or more parameters comprise location data, user information of the at least one requesting user device, network data, Central Processing Unit (CPU) usage of the plurality of recording user devices, time and duration of the recorded data, and content information.

9. The data delivery system as claimed in claim 8, wherein the additional data is further based on a user profile, and wherein the additional data comprises one or more advertisements.

10. The data delivery system as claimed in claim 7, wherein the processor monitors the progress of the delivery by monitoring the content information, network data and location data of the at least one requesting user device and the set of the recording user devices.

11. The data delivery system as claimed in claim 7, wherein the processor initiates the delivery of the requested data by determining availability of the set of the recording user devices.

12. The data delivery system as claimed in claim 11, wherein the processor determines the availability of the set of the recording user devices by sending a request to the set of the recording user devices for hosting the at least one requesting user device.

13. A non-transitory computer readable medium including instruction stored thereon that when processed by at least one processor cause a data delivery system to perform operation comprising:

receiving user request from at least one requesting user device for viewing recorded data;

receiving one or more parameters from the at least one requesting user device and a plurality of recording user devices;

determining a set of recording user devices from the plurality of recording user devices based on the received one or more parameters;

initiating delivery of recorded data from the set of the recording user devices to the at least one requesting user device;

monitoring progress of the delivery of the recorded data at predefined intervals of time, wherein the monitoring comprises monitoring uplink network conditions of the set of the recording user devices and downlink network conditions of the at least one requesting user device;

determining one or more lost segments and one or more missing segments of the recorded data based on the monitoring; and

selectively re-initiating the delivery of the one or more lost segments and the one or more missing segments of the recorded data from the set of the recording user devices for facilitating delivery of the recorded data over the network based on the uplink network conditions of the set of the recording user devices and the downlink network conditions of the at least one requesting user device, wherein along with the recorded data, additional data is provided to the at least one requesting user device based on at least one of a time of the user request and a location of the at least one requesting user device.

14. The medium as claimed in claim 13, wherein the one or more parameters comprise location data, user information of the at least one requesting user device, network data, Central Processing Unit (CPU) usage of the plurality of recording user devices, time and duration of the recorded data, and content information.

15. The medium as claimed in claim 14, wherein the additional data is further based on a user profile, and wherein the additional data comprises one or more advertisements.

16. The medium as claimed in claim 13, wherein the instruction causes the processor to monitor the progress of the delivery by monitoring the content information, network data and location data of the at least one requesting user device and the set of the recording user devices.

17. The medium as claimed in claim 13, wherein the instruction causes the processor to initiate the delivery of the requested data by determining availability of the set of the recording user devices.

18. The medium as claimed in claim 17, wherein the instruction causes the processor to determine the availability of the set of the recording user devices by sending a request to the set of the recording user devices for hosting the at least one requesting user device.