VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD, MOBILE TERMINAL, AND SERVER

• US 20150312308A1
• Filed: 06/08/2015
• Published: 10/29/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Original Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Inventors: WANG, MINGHUI, LIU, YI, WANG, HUIXING, WANG, ZHIHAO, HUANG, JUNHONG, LU, YIN, LI, HAIYOU, YU, SHANG, LIN, JUN, LIN, JIANCHENG
• Granted Patent: US 10,412,137 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/762 at the source reformatting of additional data in video distribution servers H04N21/2355
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/60 Scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests, e.g. requests for application data transmissions using the analysis and optimisation of the required network resources admission control or resource allocation H04L47/70
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide a video processing method, a mobile terminal, and a server. The method may include: sending, by a mobile terminal, a request to a server for pulling status update data of a social network, so that the server acquires original status update data that is requested to be pulled, the original status update data including a source video address; performing, by the server, adaptation processing on the source video address, to generate an adaptive video address; updating, by the server, the original status update data by using the adaptive video address, to obtain optimized status update data, and returning the optimized status update data to the mobile terminal; and obtaining, by the mobile terminal, adaptive video data according to the adaptive video address in the optimized status update data, and playing the adaptive video data.

Claims

1. A video processing method, comprising:

sending, by a mobile terminal, a request to a server for pulling status update data of a social network, so that the server acquires original status update data that is requested to be pulled, the original status update data including a source video address;

performing, by the server, adaptation processing on the source video address to generate an adaptive video address;

updating, by the server, the original status update data by using the adaptive video address to obtain optimized status update data, and returning the optimized status update data to the mobile terminal; and

obtaining, by the mobile terminal, adaptive video data according to the adaptive video address in the optimized status update data, and playing the adaptive video data.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of performing, by the server, adaptation processing on the source video address to generate an adaptive video address comprises:

extracting, by the server, the source video address from the original status update data; and

calling, by the server, a video conversion interface of a third-party video website, and converting the source video address into an adaptive video address suitable for the mobile terminal.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the step of obtaining, by the mobile terminal, adaptive video data according to the adaptive video address in the optimized status update data, and playing the adaptive video data comprises:

sending, by the mobile terminal, an adaptive video acquisition request to the third-party video website according to the adaptive video address in the optimized status update data;

receiving, by the mobile terminal, the adaptive video data that is returned by the third-party video website and identified by the adaptive video address; and

playing, by the mobile terminal, the adaptive video data.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of performing, by the server, adaptation processing on the source video address to generate an adaptive video address comprises:

extracting, by the server, the source video address from the original status update data; and

adding, by the server, an address of a proxy common gateway interface (CGI) to a field of the source video address, to generate the adaptive video address.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the step of obtaining, by the mobile terminal, adaptive video data according to the adaptive video address in the optimized status update data, and playing the adaptive video data comprises:

parsing, by the mobile terminal, the adaptive video address in the optimized status update data, to obtain the address of the proxy CGI and the source video address; and

sending, by the mobile terminal, an adaptation request to the proxy CGI, wherein the adaptation request comprises the source video address, so that the proxy CGI calls a video conversion interface of a third-party video website, and converts the source video address into an optimized video address suitable for the mobile terminal.

6. The method according to claim 5, further comprising:

receiving, by the mobile terminal, the optimized video address returned by the proxy CGI, and sending an adaptive video acquisition request to the third-party video website according to the optimized video address;

receiving, by the mobile terminal, the adaptive video data that is returned by the third-party video website and identified by the optimized video address; and

playing, by the mobile terminal, the adaptive video data.

7. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a status update pull module configured to send a request to a server for pulling status update data of a social network, so that the server pulls original status update data and processes the original status update data to generate optimized status update data, wherein the original status update data includes a source video address, and the optimized status update data includes an adaptive video address generated by performing adaptation processing on the source video address;

a data receiving module configured to receive the optimized status update data returned by the server; and

a video playback module configured to obtain adaptive video data according to the adaptive video address in the optimized status update data, and to play the adaptive video data.

8. The mobile terminal according to claim 7, wherein the video playback module comprises:

a video request unit configured to send an adaptive video acquisition request to a third-party video website according to the adaptive video address in the optimized status update data;

a data receiving unit configured to receive the adaptive video data that is returned by the third-party video website and identified by the adaptive video address; and

a playback unit configured to play the adaptive video data,

wherein the adaptive video address is an adaptive video address that is suitable for the mobile terminal and generated by converting the source video address, and the conversion of the source video address is performed by the server by calling a video conversion interface of the third-party video website.

9. The mobile terminal according to claim 7, wherein the video playback module comprises:

a parsing unit configured to parse the adaptive video address in the optimized status update data, and to obtain an address of a proxy common gateway interface (CGI) and the source video address; and

an adaptation request unit configured to send an adaptation request to the proxy CGI, wherein the adaptation request comprises the source video address, so that the proxy CGI calls a video conversion interface of a third-party video website, and converts the source video address into an optimized video address suitable for the mobile terminal,

wherein the adaptive video address is an adaptive video address generated by adding the address of the proxy CGI to a field of the source video address by the server.

10. The mobile terminal according to claim 9, wherein the video playback module further comprises:

an address receiving unit configured to receive the optimized video address returned by the proxy CGI;

a video request unit configured to send an adaptive video acquisition request to the third-party video website according to the optimized video address;

a data receiving unit configured to receive the adaptive video data that is returned by the third-party video website and identified by the optimized video address; and

a playback unit configured to play the adaptive video data,

11. A server, comprising:

a status update acquisition module configured to acquire original status update data that is requested to be pulled by a mobile terminal, the original status update data comprising a source video address;

an adaptation processing module configured to perform adaptation processing on the source video address, to generate an adaptive video address;

a data update module configured to update the original status update data by using the adaptive video address to obtain optimized status update data; and

a data returning module configured to return the optimized status update data to the mobile terminal, so that the mobile terminal obtains adaptive video data according to the adaptive video address in the optimized status update data, and plays the adaptive video data.

12. The server according to claim 11, wherein the adaptation processing module comprises:

an extraction unit configured to extract the source video address from the original status update data; and

an adaptation processing unit configured to call a video conversion interface of a third-party video website, and to convert the source video address into an adaptive video address suitable for the mobile terminal.

13. The server according to claim 11, wherein the adaptation processing module further comprises:

an extraction unit configured to extract the source video address from the original status update data; and

an addition unit configured to add an address of a proxy common gateway interface (CGI) to a field of the source video address, to generate the adaptive video address.