SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORK ORCHESTRATION TO MANAGE MEDIA FLOWS FOR BROADCAST WITH PUBLIC CLOUD NETWORKS

Number: 20250254215
Published: 2025-08-07
Filed: 2025-03-31
Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
Inventors: Strein; Michael J. et al.
CPC: H04L65/65; H04L12/1886; H04L12/1868; H04L41/342; H04N21/6408; G06F9/455; H04L65/1016; H04L67/10; G06F9/45533; H04L67/1097; H04L65/611; H04L41/069; H04L65/70; H04L63/0236; H04N21/26616; H04L65/60; H04L43/04; H04L41/40; H04L43/062; H04L41/04; H04L69/04; H04N21/6405; H04L65/762; G06F9/5011; H04L47/82
Verdict: Set aside network/broadcast orchestration, plumbing
Source: Google Patents · FreePatentsOnline

Abstract

Techniques to manage media flows for broadcast with public cloud networks. A request for a media flow is received. A location of the media flow is identified based on a registration database configured to maintain locations of media flows across a media production facility and a public cloud network facility. The media flow is accessed, and at least one of the receiving entity or the requesting entity is configured to generate media based on the media flow.

Background

BACKGROUND

As used herein, “unicast” describes communications where a piece of information is sent from one point to another point. In a unicast transmission there is only one sender and one receiver. Unicast transmission in an Internet Protocol (IP) based network, in which a packet is sent from a single source to a specified destination, is a predominant form of transmission on Local Area Networks (LANs) and within the Internet. All LANs (e.g., Ethernet) and IP networks support the unicast transfer mode, such as the standard unicast applications (e.g., HTTP, SMTP, FTP and TELNET), which employ TCP (Transmission Control Protocol).

As used herein, “multicast” describes communications where a piece of information is sent from a first set of one or more points to a second set of points to a receiver set, which any number of receivers can elect to join. In IP based networks, there may be one or more senders, and the information is distributed to a set of zero or more receivers (i.e., there may be no receivers, or any other number of receivers.) Multicasting is the networking technique of delivering the same packet simultaneously to a group of clients. The format of an IP multicast packet is identical to that of unicast packets and is distinguished by the use of a special class of destination address (e.g., class D IPv4 addresses), which denotes a specific multicast group. In some cases, a multicast communication can be sent from a single sender to a receiver set inc

Claims

1. A system comprising: a media production facility in communication with a public cloud network facility via a common carrier; an orchestration layer configured to run in the media production facility and the public cloud network facility over the common carrier; a registration database including a plurality of media flows registered therein, a first location of a first media flow of the plurality of media flows and a second location of a second media flow of the plurality of media flows, the registration database configured to uniquely identify each of the of the plurality of media flows and store respective metadata related to each of the of the plurality of media flows; and a management system in communication with the registration database and configured to access, via the orchestration layer, the first media flow from the first location identified in the registration database and the second media flow from the second location identified in the registration database.