METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PUSHING A VIDEO OVER A CDN

• US 20170171627A1
• Filed: 08/24/2016
• Published: 06/15/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Le Holdings (Beijing) Co., Ltd., Le Shi Zhi Xin Electronic Technology (Tianjin) Limited
• Original Assignee: Le Holdings (Beijing) Co., Ltd., Le Shi Zhi Xin Electronic Technology (Tianjin) Limited
• Inventors: CANG, Peng
• Application Number:
  US15/246,191
• Publication Number:
  US 20170171627A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2225 Local VOD servers
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4668 for recommending content, e.g. movies
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47202 for requesting content on demand, e.g. video on demand
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4826 using recommendation lists, e.g. of programs or channels sorted out according to their score
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73

Abstract

Disclosures are a method and electronic device for pushing a video over a CDN, where the method includes: searching for a currently set number of CDN nodes which are at the shortest spatial distances as target nodes; transmitting a list retrieval request to each target node so that the target node returns a video content list of buffered video contents upon reception of the list retrieval request; integrating the video content lists returned by the target nodes into a list of popular video contents upon reception of the video content lists; and displaying the list of popular video contents for playing for a user on demand.

Claims

1. A method for pushing a video over a CDN, the method comprising:

searching, by an electronic device, for a currently set number of CDN nodes which are at the shortest spatial distances as target nodes;

transmitting, by the electronic device, a list retrieval request to each target node so that the target node returns a video content list of buffered video contents upon reception of the list retrieval request;

integrating, by the electronic device, the video content lists returned by the target nodes into a list of popular video contents upon reception of the video content lists; and

displaying, by the electronic device, the list of popular video contents for playing for a user on demand.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein integrating, by the electronic device, the video content lists returned by the target nodes into the list of popular video contents upon reception of the video content lists comprises:

if the video content list returned by the target node is received within a preset period of time after the list retrieval request is transmitted, then integrating, by the electronic device, the video content lists received within the preset period of time into the list of popular video contents.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein displaying, by the electronic device, the list of popular video contents comprises:

splitting, by the electronic device, the list of popular video contents into lists of categorized video contents corresponding to respective category tags according to category identifiers of the video contents; and

displaying, by the electronic device, the corresponding lists of categorized video contents under the respective category tags.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein splitting, by the electronic device, the list of popular video contents according to the category identifiers of the video contents comprises:

obtaining, by the electronic device, the category tags preset in a category display;

creating, by the electronic device, the lists of categorized video contents corresponding to the respective category tags; and

adding, by the electronic device, the categories of video contents in the list of popular video contents to the corresponding lists of categorized video contents according to the category identifiers of the video contents.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

updating, by the electronic device, the currently set number to a user input preset number upon reception of the user input preset number; and

/or

counting, by the electronic device, at a preset temporal periodicity the number of times that the video contents from the list of popular video contents are played for the user on demand in the last temporal periodicity; and

if the number of times is less than a preset number of times, and the currently set number is less than a set number upper limit, to increasing, by the electronic device, the currently set number at a preset adjustment step.

6. An electronic device for pushing a video over a CDN, the electronic device comprising:

at least one processor; and

a memory communicably connected with the at least one processor for storing instructions executable by the at least one processor, wherein execution of the instructions by the at least one processor causes the at least one processor;

to search for a currently set number of CDN nodes which are at the shortest spatial distances as target nodes;

to transmit a list retrieval request to each target node so that the target node returns a video content list of buffered video contents upon reception of the list retrieval request;

to receive and integrate the video content lists returned by the target nodes into a list of popular video contents; and

to display the list of popular video contents for playing for a user on demand

7. The electronic device according to claim 6, wherein execution of the instructions by the at least one processor further causes the at least one processor, if the video content list returned by the target node is received within a preset period of time after the list retrieval request is transmitted, to integrate the video content lists received within the preset period of time into the list of popular video contents.

8. The electronic device according to claim 6, wherein execution of the instructions by the at least one processor further causes the at least one processor to split the list of popular video contents into lists of categorized video contents corresponding to respective category tags according to category identifiers of the video contents, and to display the corresponding lists of categorized video contents under the respective category tags.

9. The electronic device according to claim 8, wherein execution of the instructions by the at least one processor further causes the at least one processor:

to obtain the category tags preset in a category display;

to create the lists of categorized video contents corresponding to the respective category tags; and

to add the categories of video contents in the list of popular video contents to the corresponding lists of categorized video contents according to the category identifiers of the video contents.

10. The electronic device according to claim 6, wherein execution of the instructions by the at least one processor further causes the at least one processor:

to receive a user input preset number, and to update the currently set number to the user input preset number; and

/or to count at a preset temporal periodicity the number of times that the video contents from the list of popular video contents are played for the user on demand in the last temporal periodicity; and

if the number of times is less than a preset number of times, and the currently set number is less than a set number upper limit, to increase the currently set number at a preset adjustment step.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing executable instructions that, when executed by an electronic device with a touch-sensitive display, cause the electronic device:

to search for a currently set number of CDN nodes which are at the shortest spatial distances as target nodes;

to transmit a list retrieval request to each target node so that the target node returns a video content list of buffered video contents upon reception of the list retrieval request;

to receive and integrate the video content lists returned by the target nodes into a list of popular video contents; and

to display the list of popular video contents for playing for a user on demand.

12. The storage medium according to claim 11, wherein execution of the instructions by the electronic device further causes the electronic device:

if the video content list returned by the target node is received within a preset period of time after the list retrieval request is transmitted, to integrate the video content lists received within the preset period of time into the list of popular video contents.

13. The storage medium according to claim 11, wherein execution of the instructions by the electronic device further causes the electronic device:

to split the list of popular video contents into lists of categorized video contents corresponding to respective category tags according to category identifiers of the video contents, and to display the corresponding lists of categorized video contents under the respective category tags.

14. The storage medium according to claim 13, wherein execution of the instructions by the electronic device further causes the electronic device:

to obtain the category tags preset in a category display;

to create the lists of categorized video contents corresponding to the respective category tags; and

to add the categories of video contents in the list of popular video contents to the corresponding lists of categorized video contents according to the category identifiers of the video contents.

15. The storage medium according to claim 11, wherein execution of the instructions by the electronic device further causes the electronic device:

to receive a user input preset number, and to update the currently set number to the user input preset number; and

/or to count at a preset temporal periodicity the number of times that the video contents from the list of popular video contents are played for the user on demand in the last temporal periodicity; and

if the number of times is less than a preset number of times, and the currently set number is less than a set number upper limit, to increase the currently set number at a preset adjustment step.