Asynchronously ingesting media content into a content management system from a client computer having an unreliable network connection

• US 9,250,771 B1
• Filed: 03/15/2013
• Issued: 02/02/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Dcoret, Xavier Franois, Gaba Atti, Ayite Herve, Deme, Ahmadou Tidjane
• Primary Examiner(s): Pham, Linh K
• Application Number:
  US13/836,726
• Time in Patent Office: 1,054 Days
• Field of Search: 715/723
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/40 of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data retrieval of still image data G06F16/50; retrieval of audio data G06F16/60; retrieval of video data G06F16/70
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04895 Guidance during keyboard input operation, e.g. prompting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/186 Templates
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/00 Network arrangements or protocols for supporting network services or applications user-to-user messaging H04L51/00; network arrangements, protocols or services for supporting real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2743 Video hosting of uploaded data from client
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47205 for manipulating displayed content, e.g. interacting with MPEG-4 objects, editing locally
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/854 Content authoring

Abstract

A computer network for asynchronously ingesting media content into a content management system (CMS) is disclosed. The network includes a client computer located in a first geographical location, a server computer located in a second geographical location and a liaison computer located in a third geographical location. The client computer communicates with the server computer by way of a substandard network connection that is subject to frequent interruptions and/or low bandwidth. The liaison computer communicates with the server computer by way of a reliable network. The client computer includes a user interface wizard component that edits and bundles media content and prompts a user to select between uploading content to the server computer by way of the substandard network (e.g. piecemeal between interruptions) or storing the content in a local mobile storage device for uploading from the liaison computer.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a client computer located in a first geographical location including a non-transitory memory device and a processor that executes the following computer executable components;

a first user interface (UI) component that edits media content to create edited media content;

a second UI component that bundles the edited media content to create bundled media content;

a third UI component that prompts a user to select from options including uploading the bundled media content to a server computer located in a second geographical location via a network connection or storing the bundled media content in a movable storage device that is local to the client computer; and

a transfer component that, in response to detecting an interruption in the uploading of the bundled media content to the server computer after a first portion of the bundled media content has been uploaded to the server computer, generates a remnant file comprising a second portion of the bundled media content that was not uploaded to the server computer and attaches a remnant file extension to the remnant file to facilitate identification of the remnant file as being the remnant file associated with the first portion of the bundled media content by the server computer and facilitate a recombination of the first portion of the bundled media content and the second portion of the bundled media content stored in the remnant file by the server computer after the server computer receives the second portion of the bundled media content,

wherein the remnant file extension is different from a file extension associated with the first portion of the bundled media content and identifies the remnant file as being a type of file that comprises the second portion of the bundled media content,

wherein the transfer component stores the remnant file on the movable storage device to facilitate transfer of the second portion of the bundled media content stored in the remnant file to the server computer via a liaison computer associated with the server component via another network connection, and

wherein the liaison computer is located in a third geographical location.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the first UI component edits metadata related to the media content in addition to editing the media content.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the second UI component packages the media content in a format that is compatible with one or more tool chains of the server computer.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the network connection includes a Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocols (HTTPS) connection.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the third UI communicates with the server computer by using an application program interface (API).

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the network connection is subject to failure under a defined condition.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the network connection is a bandwidth network connection that has a bandwidth that is below a defined standard level of bandwidth.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the first geographical location is a first city and the second geographical location is a second city.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the movable storage device includes at least one of a hard disk drive, a flash memory device, a compact disk (CD), or a digital video disk (DVD).

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the transfer component monitors a status of the uploading of the bundled media content to the server computer and detects the status.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the transfer component detects the interruption and a time of the interruption based on the monitoring of the status.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the movable storage device is configured to be communicably coupled to the liaison computer to facilitate uploading at least the second portion of the bundled media content to the server computer via the liaison computer.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the liaison computer is configured to download the first UI component, the second UI component, and the third UI component from the server computer.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein the movable storage device is configured for manual transfer from the first geographical location to the third geographical location.

15. The system of claim 1, wherein the first UI component, the second UI component, and the third UI component are implemented as one or more software plug-in programs.

16. A method, comprising:

editing, by a client device, media content to generate edited media content;

bundling, by the client device, the edited media content to generate bundled media content;

prompting, by the client device, a user to select from options including uploading the bundled media content to a server computer using a network connection or storing the bundled media content in a movable storage device that is local to the client device, wherein the client device is located in a first geographical location and a server computer is located in a second geographical location;

commencing, by the client device, uploading of the bundled media content to the server computer via the network connection in response to the user selecting the uploading option;

detecting, by the client device, a failure condition associated with the network connection after a first portion of the bundled media content has been uploaded to the server computer, wherein the failure condition interrupts the uploading of the bundled media content;

storing, by the client device, a remnant file comprising a remnant portion of the bundled media content in a memory location of the client device in response to the detecting the failure condition, wherein the remnant portion of the bundled media content comprises a subset of the bundled media content that was not uploaded to the server computer due to the failure condition;

associating, by the client device, a remnant identifier with the remnant file to facilitate identifying the remnant file as being the remnant file associated with the first portion of the bundled media content by the server computer and recombining the first portion of the bundled media content and the remnant portion of the bundled media content stored in the remnant file by the server computer after the server computer receives the remnant file, wherein the remnant identifier is different from a file identifier associated with the first portion of the bundled media content and identifies the remnant file as being a type of file that comprises the remnant portion of the bundled media content; and

storing, by the client device, the remnant file on the movable storage device to facilitate transferring the remnant portion of the bundled media content stored in the remnant file to the server computer via a liaison computer associated with the server component via another network connection, wherein the liaison computer is located in a third geographical location.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

automatically commencing, by the client device, uploading a subset of the remnant portion to the server computer upon resolution of the failure condition.

18. A method, comprising:

commencing, by a system comprising a processor, uploading of media content from a client device to a server device via a network connection;

identifying, by the system, an interruption of the uploading of the media content after a first subset of the media content has been uploaded to the server device;

storing, by the system, a remnant subset of the media content in a remnant file in a memory location of a client device in response to the interruption, wherein the remnant subset includes a portion of the media content that was not uploaded to the server device as a result of the interruption;

associating, by the system, a defined file extension with the remnant file to facilitate identifying the remnant file as containing the remnant subset of the media content and facilitate recombining the first subset of the media content and the remnant subset of the media content stored in the remnant file by the server device after the server device receives the remnant subset of the media content, wherein the defined file extension is different from a file extension of the first subset of the media content; and

storing, by the system, the remnant file on a portable memory device to facilitate transferring the remnant portion of the bundled media content stored in the remnant file to the server device via another device that is associated with the server device via another network connection, wherein the client device is located in a first location, the server device is located in a second location, and the other device is located in a third location.

19. A method, comprising:

editing, by a system comprising a processor, media content to generate edited media content;

bundling, by the system, the edited media content to generate bundled media content;

initiating, by the system, uploading of the bundled media content from a client device to a remote server device via a network connection; and

in response to detecting a failure of the network connection after a first portion of the bundled media content has been uploaded to the remote server device, associating, by the system, a defined file extension with a remnant file that comprises a second portion of the bundled media content that was not uploaded to the server device to facilitate identifying the remnant file as containing the second portion of the bundled media content that is associated with the first portion of the bundled media content and facilitate recombining the first portion of the bundled media content and the second portion of the bundled media content by the server device after the server device receives the second portion of the media content, wherein the defined file extension is different from a file extension of the bundled media content; and

storing, by the system, the remnant file on a movable storage device to facilitate transferring the second portion of the bundled media content to the server device via a liaison device associated with the remote server device via another network connection, wherein the client device is located in a first geographical location, the remote server device is located in a second geographical location, and the liaison device is located in a third geographical location.

20. The method of claim 19, further comprising:

editing, by the system, metadata associated with the media content.