Automated Network Navigation

Number: 20190260668
Published: 2019-08-22
Filed: 2018-02-19
Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES INC.
Inventors: Stefanidis; Efthimis et al.
CPC: H04L43/16; H04L41/5025; H04L43/0852; H04L45/56; H04L65/612; H04L65/752; H04L45/14; H04L43/0817; H04L43/50; H04L41/5009
Verdict: Set aside automated network navigation, IT infra
Source: Google Patents · FreePatentsOnline

Abstract

A network navigation system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a system memory storing a routing software code, and communicatively coupled to multiple hardware nodes of a communication network. The hardware processor executes the routing software code to monitor performance data for each hardware node, identify a network destination for a content stream, identify a source hardware node for providing source content of the content stream based on the performance data, and identify hardware transmission nodes for delivery of the content stream based on the performance data. The source and transmission nodes determine a first network route for delivery of the content stream. The routing software code also receives test data for the first network route during delivery of the content stream, and determines a second network route for delivery of the content stream if the test data fails to meet a predetermined test standard.

Background

BACKGROUND

As the systems designed to distribute various forms of media content, including video, migrate to modern communication networks such as the Internet, quality control and delivery assurance processes developed for use in a traditional broadcast environment may continue to be relied upon. In the case of video, for instance, traditional video distribution systems were typically designed for fault tolerance, and may utilize redundant sources of video content and redundant distribution paths. In addition, each system component for performing video processing along the distribution path may be replicated one or more times to ensure the availability of backups.

The distribution of video over a communication network such as the Internet introduces additional layers of complexity, however. For example, sources of video content, the destinations for that video content, and the resources included in the paths utilized for distribution of the video content may be numerous, diverse, and are often remote from one another. Consequently, reliance on traditional video distribution processes and controls can prove undesirably costly and inefficient with respect to resource allocation when applied to distribution of content over the Internet or other wide area network.SUMMARY

There are provided automated network navigation systems and methods for use by such systems, substantially as shown in and/or described in connection with at least one of the figures, and as se

Claims

1. A network navigation system comprising: a computing platform communicatively coupled to a plurality of hardware nodes of a communication network, the computing platform including a hardware processor and a system memory storing a routing software code; the hardware processor configured to execute the routing software code to: monitor a performance data for each of the plurality of hardware nodes of the communication network; identify a network destination for a content stream; identify a source node of the plurality of hardware nodes for providing a source content of the content stream based on the performance data; identify a plurality of transmission nodes of the plurality of hardware nodes for delivery of the content stream to the network destination based on the performance data, the source node and the plurality of transmission nodes determining a first network route for delivery of the content stream; receive a test data for the first network route during delivery of the content stream along the first network route; and determine a second network route for delivery of the content stream if the test data for the first network route fails to meet a predetermined test standard. 11. A method for use by a network navigation system including a computing platform communicatively coupled to a plurality of hardware nodes of a communication network, the computing platform including a hardware processor and a system memory storing a routing software code, the method comprising: monitoring, using the hardware processor, a performance data for each of the plurality of hardware nodes of the communication network; identifying, using the hardware processor, a network destination for a content stream; identifying, using the hardware processor, a source node of the plurality of hardware nodes for providing a source content of the content stream based on the performance data; identifying, using the hardware processor, a plurality of transmission nodes of the plurality of hardware nodes for delivery of the content stream to the network destination based on the performance data, the source node and the plurality of transmission nodes determining a first network route for delivery of the content stream; receiving, using the hardware processor, a test data for the first network route during delivery of the content stream along the first network route; and determining, using the hardware processor, a second network route for delivery of the content stream if the test data for the first network route fails to meet a predetermined test standard.