The present disclosure provides a data storage method, belonging to the field of data processing. The method is applied to a storage server in a cloud storage system. The method includes: monitoring data transmission status of a data acquisition device; obtaining data exception information according to the monitored data transmission exceptional status; transmitting a first data backhaul request to the data acquisition device, the data acquisition device being configured to return first data acquired within the exception time period upon receiving the first data backhaul request; and storing the first data upon receiving the first data.

Apparatuses and methods for data traffic management in multi-source content delivery are described. The apparatus includes a downloader and a controller. The downloader is coupled to servers via communication links. The controller is configured to determine initial download requests for the servers based on predetermined information about a quality of the links. The controller is also configured to send the initial download requests to the servers with the downloader. The controller is further configured to update the information about the quality of the communication links after the downloader receives data associated with a data file from the servers via the communication links. The controller is also configured to determine subsequent download requests for the servers based on the updated information about the quality of the communication links. The controller of further configured to send the subsequent download requests to the servers via the downloader.

A method for managing computational resources allocated for encoding of one or more multimedia content streams for distribution in dynamic mode to viewing devices through a distribution network is proposed, which comprises, by a processing node of the distribution network: obtain, for a multimedia content stream corresponding to a channel distributed to the viewing devices, a value of a computational resource allocation criterion, wherein the computational resource allocation criterion comprises an audience measurement for the corresponding channel and a video content complexity of the multimedia content stream; and determine, based on the computational resource allocation criterion, an allocation of computational resources of a computing platform configured for encoding the multimedia content stream.

The disclosed computer-implemented method may include discovering, by a computer processor and based on user information, that an identity of a user generating a live broadcast is enabled for dual streaming. The method may also include determining, by the computer processor and based at least in part on available network bandwidth, that the live broadcast is authorized for dual streaming. The method may further include transmitting separately, by the computer processor at least partly in response to the discovery and the determination, streams of the live broadcast to a plurality of different network nodes of a streaming platform. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

A method includes communicating a first stream of a video comprising first and second objects to a device. The first stream has a first resolution. The method also includes communicating a second stream to the device. The second stream indicates that the first object is contextual and that the second object is non-contextual. The method further includes, after a decrease in bandwidth, communicating a third stream of the video to the device. The third stream has a second resolution that is lower than the first resolution. When the video is presented for display using the third stream and based on the second stream indicating that the first object is contextual and that the second object is non-contextual, the first object is presented in the first resolution and the second object is presented in the second resolution.

The described technology is generally directed towards coordinating the generation, validation and enabling of content selection graphs in an in-memory content selection graph data store. When a set of content selection graphs is requested, a coordinator starts the generation of the relevant graphs. Upon successful generation, the coordinator starts a validation of the generated graphs against rules for the nodes/response data in the graphs. If the generated graphs pass validation, the coordinator enables the graph set for use in an in-memory cache, whereby when a request to return content selection data is received, an active graph that corresponds to the request and the current time is accessed to obtain and return the response data as the requested content selection data.

An online system receives video data items from users and encodes the video data items using various codecs. To account for different computational resources used for encoding using different codecs, the online system ranks combinations of video data items by ratios of encoding video data items with different codecs to computational costs of encoding different video data items with different codecs. The benefit of encoding a video data item with a codec is based on a compression efficiency of the codec and a predicted aggregate amount of the video data item displayed to various users of the online system. Encoding video data items with codecs based on the determined ratios allows the online system to optimize a duration of video data having at least a threshold video quality to users.

A system includes vCores and a messaging system to receive IPDR data. The IPDR data from the messaging system is transmitted by an IPDR exporter to an IPDR collector.

A set-top box with self-monitoring and system and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment of the set-top box, a housing secures a television input, a television output, a processor, memory, and storage therein, which are communicatively interconnected by a busing architecture. The memory is accessible to the processor, and the memory includes processor-executable instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to detect when the television is not being utilized. Responsive thereto, the instructions cause the processor to scan channels received from the television input and generate a composite TV screen image data that may be resolved to a single TV screen image made from an assemblage of TV screen image captures corresponding to the scanned channels.

A method includes: receiving a script configured to modify the audio-video file; calculating a performance metric based on execution of the script on a set of test files; classifying the script as performant based on the performance metric; defining a metadata store associated with the script and the audio-video file; receiving a playback request specifying a rendition of the audio-video file from a computational device; in response to receiving the playback request: accessing a set of data inputs from the metadata store; executing the script on a frame of the audio-video file based on the set of data inputs to generate a modified frame of the audio-video file; transcoding the modified frame of the audio-video file into the rendition to generate an output frame of the audio-video file; and transmitting the output frame of the audio-video file to the computational device for playback at the computational device.