Streaming data on data processes

• US 9,246,964 B2
• Filed: 11/09/2012
• Issued: 01/26/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/09/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Dettori, Paolo, Nogima, Julio, Schaffa, Frank A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Golabbakhsh, Ebrahim
• Application Number:
  US13/673,227
• Publication Number:
  US 20140136722A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,173 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/60 Network streaming of media packets
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/61 for supporting one-way streaming services, e.g. Internet radio
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/75 Media network packet handling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/762 at the source reformatting of additional data in video distribution servers H04N21/2355
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

A method, system and computer program product for servicing media content. In one embodiment, the media content is processed by having each of a group of services process increments of the media content, one increment at a time; and the order in which the services process these increments is orchestrated to process all of the media content in accordance with a defined procedure. In one embodiment, the increments of the media content are passed, one increment after another, to at least a plurality of the services in a defined order. In an embodiment, each time one of the plurality of services passes one of the increments of the media content to a subsequent one of the services in the defined order, the one of the plurality of services requests another increment of the media content from a preceding one of the services in the defined order.

Claims

1. A system for servicing media content, comprising:

one or more processing units configured for;

providing a multitude of services to process the media content;

using each of the services to process increments of the media content, one increment at a time; and

orchestrating the order in which the services process the increments of the media content to process all of the media content in accordance with a defined procedure, including

identifying a defined order of the multitude of the services for processing the increments of the media content, and

passing the increments of the media content, one increment after another, to each of at least a plurality of the services in the defined order, including one or more of said services determining when the increments of the media content are passed among the plurality of the services to process the increments of the media content in said defined order.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein:

one of said services is a last service in said defined procedure; and

the using each of the services to process increments of the media content includes, after said last service has finished processing all of the increments of the media content, said last service indicating that the defined procedure to process all of the media content is complete.

3. The system according to claim 2, wherein the using each of the services further includes:

said last service requesting an additional increment of the media content at multiple times;

in response to one of the requests for an additional increment of the media content, sending to said last service a message indicating that no more data is to be processed by said last service; and

after said last service receives said message, the last service indicating that the defined procedure is complete.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein the orchestrating includes:

each of a first group of the services obtaining the increments of the media content from another one of the services; and

identifying to each service of the first group of the services the other one of the services from which said each service obtains the increments of the media content.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein the one or more processing units are further configured for concurrently processing a multitude of the increments of the media content by said multitude of services to expedite the processing all the media content.

6. A system for servicing media content, comprising:

one or more processing units configured for;

providing a multitude of services to process the media content;

using each of the services to process increments of the media content, one increment at a time; and

orchestrating the order in which the services process the increments of the media content to process all of the media content in accordance with a defined procedure; and

wherein;

the orchestrating includes passing the multitude of increments, one increment after another, to at least a plurality of the services in a defined order; and

each time one of said plurality of services passes one of the increments of the media content to a subsequent one of the services in the defined order, said one of the plurality of services requests another one of the increments of the media content from a preceding one of the services in the defined order.

7. An article of manufacture comprising:

at least one tangible computer readable device having computer readable program code logic tangibly embodied therein to provide a multitude of services for processing media content, the computer readable program code logic, when executing, performing the following;

using the multitude of services to process the media content by having each of the services process increments of the media content, one increment at a time; and

orchestrating the order in which the services process the increments of the media content to process all of the media content in accordance with a defined procedure, including

identifying a defined order of the multitude of the services for processing the increments of the media content, and

passing the increments of the media content, one increment after another, to each of at least a plurality of the services in the defined order, including one or more of said services determining when the increments of the media content are passed among the plurality of the services to process the increments of the media content in said defined order.

8. The article of manufacture according to claim 7, wherein:

one of said services is a last service in said defined procedure; and

the using the multitude of services to process the media content includes, after said last service has finished processing all of the increments of the media content, said last service indicating that the defined procedure to process all of the media content is complete.

9. The article of manufacture according to claim 8, wherein the using the multitude of services further includes:

said last service requesting an additional increment of the media content at multiple times;

in response to one of the requests for an additional increment of the media content, sending to said last service a message indicating that no more data is to be processed by said last service; and

after said last service receives said message, the last service indicating that the defined procedure is complete.

10. The article of manufacture according to claim 7, wherein the orchestrating includes:

each of a first group of the services obtaining the increments of the media content from another one of the services; and

identifying to each service of the first group of the services the other one of the services from which said each service obtains the increments of the media content.

11. The article of manufacture according to claim 7, wherein:

each time one of said plurality of services passes one of the increments of the media content to a subsequent one of the services in the defined order, said one of the plurality of services requests another one of the increments of the media content from a preceding one of the services in the defined order.