Video caching system and method for a jukebox

• US 9,998,785 B2
• Filed: 11/10/2015
• Issued: 06/12/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/10/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AMI Entertainment Network, LLC
• Original Assignee: AMI Entertainment Network, LLC
• Inventors: Loranger, Richard M., Jaros, Charles, Richards, Ronald
• Primary Examiner(s): Chen, Cai Y
• Application Number:
  US14/936,823
• Publication Number:
  US 20160134933A1
• Time in Patent Office: 945 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/0875 with dedicated cache, e.g. instruction or stack
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2212/455 Image or video data
• 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 21/252 Processing of multiple end-users' preferences to derive collaborative data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41415 involving a public display, viewable by several users in a public space outside their home, e.g. movie theatre, information kiosk
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4331 Caching operations, e.g. of an advertisement for later insertion during playback
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4335 Housekeeping operations, e.g. prioritizing content for deletion because of storage space restrictions storage management, e.g. defragmentation G06F3/0604; unloading stored programs G06F9/445; storage management in file systems G06F16/10; buffering arrangements in a network node or in an end terminal in packet networks H04L49/90
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44204 Monitoring of content usage, e.g. the number of times a movie has been viewed, copied or the amount which has been watched monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; protecting generic digital content where the protection is independent of the precise nature of the content G06F21/10; arrangements for monitoring the use made of the broadcast services in broadcast systems H04H60/31
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8113 comprising music, e.g. song in MP3 format

Abstract

Systems and methods for managing a plurality of videos associated with one or more of a plurality of communicably coupled jukeboxes over a network, are disclosed. A first digital jukebox of the plurality of communicably coupled jukeboxes, ranks the plurality of videos according to a predetermined criteria. Based, at least in part, on the ranking, the first digital jukebox determines whether to store a video of the plurality of videos in a temporary cache of the first digital jukebox.

Claims

1. A method for managing a plurality of videos associated with one or more of a plurality of communicably coupled digital jukeboxes, the method comprising:

ranking, by a first digital jukebox of the plurality of communicably coupled jukeboxes, the plurality of videos according to a predetermined criteria, the predetermined criteria including a popularity metric associated with the video, the popularity metric including a play frequency of media content, the media content including at least one of a song, an artist, and a genre related to the video, the predetermined criteria excluding any manual designation of ranking by any user of the first digital jukebox; and

determining, by the first digital jukebox, whether to download into a temporary cache of the first digital jukebox, a video of the plurality of videos, based at least in part on the ranking of the video.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

in response to determining that the video is the highest ranked video not currently stored in the temporary cache, downloading the video into the temporary cache.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

prior to downloading the video into the temporary cache, determining an availability of free space in the temporary cache.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

in response to determining that the video is the lowest ranked video, removing the lowest ranked video from the temporary cache.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

prior to removing the lowest ranked video, determining if the temporary cache has reached a predetermined memory limit.

6. A method for managing a plurality of videos associated with one or more of a plurality of communicably coupled digital jukeboxes, the method comprising:

ranking, by a first digital jukebox of the plurality of communicably coupled jukeboxes, the plurality of videos based at least in part on a popularity metric including a local popularity metric associated with each video and a network popularity metric associated with each video, the local popularity metric corresponding to a local play frequency of media content locally on the first digital jukebox, the network popularity metric corresponding to the play frequency of the media content on one or more second digital jukeboxes of the plurality of communicably coupled digital jukeboxes, wherein the media content includes at least one of a song, an artist, and a genre related to each video, the ranking for each of the plurality of videos excluding any manual designation of ranking by any user of the first digital jukebox; and

determining, by the first digital jukebox, whether to download into a temporary cache of the first digital jukebox, a selected video of the plurality of videos based at least in part on the ranking of the selected video.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the local play frequency includes a number of plays of the selected video on the first digital jukebox, and wherein the network play frequency includes a number of plays of the selected video on the one or more second digital jukeboxes.

8. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

in response to determining that;

a used bandwidth during a billing period is below a threshold bandwidth; and

the selected video is the highest ranked video not currently stored in the temporary cache,

downloading the selected video into the temporary cache.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the ranking is based at least in part on one or more video requests by a user of the first digital jukebox and one or more previous video requests by the user of the one or more second jukeboxes.

10. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

in response to determining that;

a used bandwidth during a billing period is below a threshold bandwidth; and

the selected video is the lowest ranked video, removing the lowest ranked video from the temporary cache.

11. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

prior to removing the selected video, determining if the temporary cache has reached a predetermined memory limit.

12. The method of claim 6, further comprising adjusting the popularity metric, wherein the adjusted popularity metric is based at least in part on a ratio of the local play frequency of the genre of the media content to the network play frequency of the genre of the media content.

13. A first digital jukebox for managing a plurality of videos associated with one or more of a plurality of digital jukeboxes communicably coupled to the first digital jukebox, the first digital jukebox comprising:

a temporary cache configured to store one or more of the plurality of videos; and

a processor configured to;

rank the plurality of videos according to a predetermined criteria, the predetermined criteria includes a popularity metric associated with the selected video, the popularity metric including a play frequency of media content, the media content including at least one of a song, an artist, and a genre related to the selected video, the predetermined criteria excluding any manual designation of ranking by any user of the first digital jukebox; and

determine whether to download into the temporary cache, a selected video of the plurality of videos based at least in part on the rank of the video.

14. The first digital jukebox of claim 13, wherein the processor is further configured to download the selected video into the temporary cache if the video is the highest ranked video.

15. The first digital jukebox of claim 14, wherein the processor is further configured to determine an availability of free space in the temporary cache prior to downloading the highest selected video into the temporary cache.

16. The first digital jukebox of claim 13, wherein the processor is further configured to download the selected video into the temporary cache if the selected video is the lowest ranked video.

17. The first digital jukebox of claim 16, wherein the processor is further configured to determine if the temporary cache has reached a predetermined memory limit prior to removing the selected video from the temporary cache.

18. The first digital jukebox of claim 13, wherein the popularity metric includes at least one of a local popularity metric of the selected video and a network popularity metric of the video, the local popularity metric corresponding to a local play frequency of the media content locally on the first digital jukebox, and the network popularity metric corresponding to a network play frequency of the media content on the one or more second digital jukeboxes.