Systems and methods are described herein for streaming during unavailability of a content server. Upon determining that there are conditions indicating buffering issues during delivery of a media asset, a server determines a first group of devices suitable for receiving the media asset from the server and sharing the media asset on a peer-to-peer network. Then, the server determines a second group of devices suitable for receiving the media asset on a peer-to-peer network from a first group device. The server then determines groupings within which to share and receive the media asset. Next, the server transmits instructions to the devices in the first group to maintain in buffer and share certain portions of the media asset with the second group devices within their grouping. Finally, the server updates information detailing the media asset portions the devices are maintaining in buffer and sharing.

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for watermark outage detection. Example methods include evaluating an onset time and duration of a detected watermark outage based on a model of expected watermark outages to determine whether the detected watermark outage corresponds to at least one of the expected watermark outages represented in the model. Example methods further include generating an alert in response to determining the detected watermark outage does not correspond to at least one of the expected watermark outages included in the model, and suppressing the alert in response to determining the detected watermark outage corresponds to the at least one of the expected watermark outages represented in the model.

A system includes a computing platform having processing hardware and a memory storing software code, a workstation database, and a station database. When executed, the software code receives workflow data describing a workflow for a station, obtains from the station database, using the workflow data, a configuration data for execution of the workflow by the station, and identifies, using the configuration data, multiple application programming interfaces (APIs). The software code further identifies, using the workstation database, a workstation for use by the station to execute the workflow, configures, using the configuration data, the workstation for execution of the workflow, and translates, during execution of the workflow, communications among the station and the multiple APIs into a common communication protocol.

Multiple segmentation servers are synchronized to provide failover capacity in such a way that should a failover occur, the segment numbers/playlists/encryption keys/decryption keys are identical on each of the segmentation servers. Synchronizing the contents of a segmentation server on one or more backup segmentation servers ensures that the delivery of a content stream is immune to the failure of segmentation servers, provided at least one segmentation server remains fault-free. A caching server may further facilitate the fault tolerance by checking the availability of the individual segmentation servers, collect content segments from one of the segmentation servers, and serve the content segment to clients. The caching server automatically checks a primary segmentation server to ensure it is available (e.g., online), and provides automatic failover to a backup segmentation server should the primary server experience a fault (e.g., go offline).

Systems and methods for dynamically multiplexing requested linear media channels and network data on forward link traffic streams of a communication link to a craft media delivery system are provided. Furthermore, systems and methods for receiving dynamically multiplexed requested linear media channels and network data on forward link traffic streams of a communication link by a craft media delivery system are also provided.

Systems and methods for optimizing sensory signal capturing by reconfiguring robotic device configurations. A method includes determining at least one predicted future sensor reading for a robotic device based on navigation path data of the robotic device, wherein the robotic device is deployed with at least one sensor, wherein each predicted future sensor reading is an expected value of a future sensory signal; determining an optimized sensor configuration based on the at least one predicted future sensor reading, wherein the optimized sensor configuration optimizes capturing of sensor signals by the at least one sensor; and reconfiguring the at least one sensor based on the optimized sensor configuration, wherein reconfiguring the at least one sensor further comprises modifying at least one sensor parameter of the at least one sensor based on the optimized sensor configuration.

A method of video playing is provided. An implementation solution is: obtaining a video playing address list from a video management server, where the video playing address list includes playing links of real-time video streams of a plurality of monitoring cameras; obtaining the real-time video streams of the plurality of monitoring cameras from the video management server according to the video playing address list so as to be played on a screen; obtaining a historical video stream of at least one of the monitoring cameras from a video storage server so as to be played on the screen in response to detecting fault information which indicates that the real-time video stream of the at least one of the monitoring cameras cannot be played; and recording the fault information, where the fault information includes the playing link of the real-time video stream of the at least one of the monitoring cameras.

A device, system, and method perform an automatic change over for transport streams. The method is performed at an output server. The method includes selecting a first transport stream. The method includes generating a first portion of an output based on the first transport stream. The method includes selecting a second transport stream. The method includes determining a frametime to synchronize first packets of the first transport stream to second packets of the second transport stream. The frametime is based on a start time of a content item included in the first transport stream and the second transport stream and a completed progression of the content item using the first transport stream. The method includes determining a location in the second transport stream based on the frametime. The method includes generating a second portion of the output based on the second transport stream starting at the location.

The disclosure relates to content delivery systems such as gateways for use in locations where the services of many end user devices are provided by a common management entity, such as hospitality, dormitory, healthcare, or other enterprise settings. The disclosure includes methods of initializing a gateway configuration and operating a gateway by ingesting content from a variety of signals (satellite, broadcast, cable, and IP), processing the content to have additional desired features, and reassembling content in various forms for delivery to individual end user devices.

Devices, computer-readable media, and methods for predictively managing the customer experience in a content distribution network are disclosed. In one example, a method includes acquiring a system log from a component of a content distribution network, detecting an event in a report derived from the system log that has been correlated with a decline in a key performance indicator of the content distribution network, and initiating a corrective action in response to the detecting.