Background technology
VOD service in the bi-directional digital television interactive service has changed traditional " you broadcast me and see " pattern, sees TV in the past, be programs such as user, what TV station broadcasts, and what the user must see, if the program of liking is arranged, must wait TV station's broadcast and just can watch.VOD service is with film, TV play, special column program, hot music, excellent race ... etc. the rich and colourful items content, classification is concentrated at server, adopt the pattern of " I put you and broadcast ", the user wants what is seen, what programme content server just plays to the user.
Programme content plays to the user by the content release net, comprises other server farm of at least three levels in the content release net, is center, subcenter and sub-edge etc.The center comprises central store district and center backup area, central store district stored all programme contents, the center backup area has backed up all programme contents in the central store district.Described all programme contents comprise popular content and unexpected winner content, for example, popular content accounts for 20%, the unexpected winner content accounts for 80%, so-called popular content, just the high programme content of user's viewing rate is a programme content up-to-date, best in all programme contents, so-called unexpected winner content, the just low programme content of user's viewing rate.The center is assessed all programme contents, assess out popular content and unexpected winner content, to each subcenter, each subcenter subordinate has a plurality of sub-edges with popular down sending content, and subcenter is handed down to each sub-edge with the higher relatively programme content of viewing rate in the popular content again.Terminal is to the programme content that needs with acquisition apart from its nearest sub-edge request service, and described terminal can be a bi-directional digital television.As shown in Figure 1, be the structural representation of content release net in the prior art, among the figure, suppose that this content release net has N subcenter, there is shown subcenter one subordinate's N sub-edge.
When the user watches programme content, by terminal to sending program request apart from its nearest sub-edge, the indication information that comprises the user selected program content in this program request, after sub-edge receives this program request, search whether store the user selected program content at the memory space of self, if having then give terminal with this content play;
If do not have, then the upper level subcenter to this sub-edge sends this program request, after subcenter receives this program request, search whether store the user selected program content at the memory space of this subcenter self, if have then this programme content is handed down to this sub-edge, this sub-edge plays to terminal with this programme content again; If subcenter does not find this programme content at its memory space, then send this program request, after the center receives this program request to the center, heart memory block finds out this programme content therein, be handed down to subcenter, subcenter is stored this programme content, and gives terminal by sub-border broadcast.
Be provided with the center in the existing content delivery network, the central store district stored at center all programme contents, and backed up all programme contents at the center backup area.Along with going deep into of bi-directional digital television interactive service, the programme content of central store will constantly increase, and central store district and center backup area will constantly enlarge capacity, and this will increase the cost at center; And, have the risk of collapse, when collapse takes place in the storage at center, will lose all programme contents, programme content lose the strike that will cause load-bearing to operation.
Summary of the invention
The invention provides the method that a kind of programme content is handled, this method can reduce carrying cost.
The invention provides the system that a kind of programme content is handled, this system can reduce carrying cost.
The invention provides a kind of programme content control centre, this control centre can reduce the cost of content stores.
The invention provides a kind of programme content subcenter, this subcenter can reduce the cost of content stores.
The method that a kind of programme content is handled, this method comprises:
Each subcenter storage is uploaded to the programme content of local subcenter;
The control centre monitors all subcenter situations, and storage is to the descriptor of all subcenters, determines the purpose subcenter that can back up and sends backup instruction to the source subcenter, comprises the destination address of backup in the described backup instruction;
The source subcenter of receiving backup instruction with the programme content of self storage backup to backup instruction in the corresponding purpose subcenter of destination address that comprises;
The indication information of the programme content that storage source, control centre subcenter backs up and the corresponding relation between the purpose subcenter.
The system that a kind of programme content is handled comprises control centre and a plurality of subcenter;
Described subcenter, be used to store the programme content that is uploaded to local subcenter, the backup instruction that the receiving scheduling center sends comprises the destination address of backup in the described backup instruction, subcenter backups to the programme content of self storage the subcenter of described destination address correspondence;
Described control centre, be used for monitoring to all subcenter situations, storage is to the descriptor of all subcenters, determine the subcenter that to back up and send backup instruction, the indication information of the programme content that backs up in the subcenter that storage is initiatively backed up and the corresponding relation between the passive subcenter that backs up to each subcenter.
A kind of programme content control centre comprises that monitoring module and backup instruction issue module;
Described monitoring module is used for all subcenter situations are monitored, and storage is determined the subcenter that can back up and issue module to backup instruction to send backup instruction to the descriptor of all subcenters, comprises the destination address of backup in the described backup instruction;
Described backup instruction issues module, is used to receive described backup instruction, is handed down to corresponding subcenter, and stores the indication information of the programme content that backs up in the subcenter that initiatively backs up and the corresponding relation between the passive subcenter that backs up.
A kind of programme content subcenter comprises memory module and backup module,
Described memory module is used to store the programme content that is uploaded to local subcenter,
Described backup module is used for the backup instruction that the receiving scheduling center sends, with the programme content of self storage backup to backup instruction in the corresponding subcenter of destination address that comprises.
From such scheme as can be seen, among the present invention, each subcenter storage is uploaded to the programme content of local subcenter, and the control centre backups to other subcenters to the monitoring of all subcenter situations with the programme content that is uploaded to local subcenter.Adopt programme content processing scheme provided by the invention, need not to be provided with again the center of the programme content of storing all programme contents and all backups, thereby, carrying cost saved.
Embodiment
For making the purpose, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention clearer, below in conjunction with embodiment and accompanying drawing, the present invention is described in more detail.
In the practice, the memory space of each subcenter is enough big, except providing for the terminal of specified quantity the order program service, also has the part residue.The present invention utilizes the residue in each subcenter stored space, and the programme content of other subcenters is carried out back-up storage, like this, the center of all programme contents of storage and all backup programme contents is set no longer in content delivery network, has saved storage resources.
Particularly, the present invention increases the control centre in content delivery network, and referring to Fig. 2, the method exemplary process diagram for programme content of the present invention is handled may further comprise the steps:
Step 201, each subcenter storage is uploaded to the programme content of local subcenter.
Programme content is uploaded to the subcenter at its place according to actual needs in this locality, and this programme content can comprise current popular content.For example, for the subcenter in area, Shenzhen, can receive and store the programme content that is uploaded to area, Shenzhen subcenter.
Step 202, the control centre monitors all subcenter situations, and storage is to the descriptor of all subcenters, determines the subcenter that can back up and sends backup instruction to each subcenter, comprises the destination address of backup in the described backup instruction.
The control centre monitors all subcenter situations, obtain and store descriptor to all subcenters, comprise in the indication information, each subcenter coverage of institute's store program content in the residual state, the distance between each subcenter, each subcenter of each subcenter memory space the user to the clicking rate of programme content, or the like.
Need to prove that described each subcenter memory space can be only at each subcenter self; Also can be at each subcenter and this subcenter subordinate's sub-edge, just, if certain subcenter subordinate's sub-edge memory space has enough residues, then the residual memory space at this sub-edge can be thought the residual memory space of this subcenter.And the control centre generates listing according to the indication information of each subcenter stored programme content, and this listing comprises the indication information of all programme contents in all subcenters; Then, the control centre is issued to each subcenter subordinate's sub-edge by each subcenter with listing, and sub-edge shows the user by terminal with listing, and the user selects the indication information about certain programme content from listing; Terminal sends program request to obtain programme content according to user's selection to sub-edge, and described program request comprises the indication information of user selected program content.In addition, the control centre also upgrades in real time to the listing that is issued to each sub-edge.
In this step, the control centre determines the backup relation between each subcenter according to the descriptor to all subcenters, issues backup instruction to each subcenter, and described backup instruction comprises the destination address of backup.For example, the control centre issues backup instruction according to the residual state of each subcenter memory space, particularly, if the memory space in certain subcenter has abundant residue, this residual memory space is used to store the programme content that is uploaded to local subcenter except guaranteeing this subcenter, and guarantee outside the activity space of this subcenter, also has redundant memory space, then the control centre issues backup instruction at least one subcenter of other appointments, the programme content of at least one subcenter of described appointment is backuped to the memory space of this subcenter redundancy, after the backup, the corresponding relation between the subcenter that control centre's storage is backed up.For another example, in order further to optimize backup to subcenter program map content, the control centre carries out issuing of backup instruction according to the residual state of each subcenter memory space and the distance between each subcenter, particularly, if the control centre finds the memory space in certain subcenter abundant residue is arranged, then to the subcenter transmission backup instruction contiguous with this subcenter, make the subcenter that is close to this subcenter that programme content is backuped to this subcenter, after the backup, corresponding relation between the subcenter that control centre's storage is backed up, like this, when needing, can obtain the programme content of backup from contiguous subcenter easily.
Here, two subcenters that will back up are called source subcenter and purpose subcenter, wherein will be called the purpose subcenter with the corresponding subcenter of destination address that comprises in the backup instruction, another subcenter is called the source subcenter, the subcenter of source subcenter for initiatively backing up, the purpose subcenter is the passive subcenter that backs up.Corresponding relation between the described subcenter comprises the indication information of the programme content that backs up in the subcenter of source and the corresponding relation between the purpose subcenter.Particularly, the corresponding relation between the described subcenter not only comprises the corresponding relation between the address of the address of source subcenter and purpose subcenter, also comprise the address of this source subcenter and the indication information of the programme content that backs up between corresponding relation.Like this, after corresponding relation between the subcenter that will back up is stored in the control centre, when the programme content in certain subcenter is found collapse, can obtain the programme content of backup at the corresponding target subcenter according to the corresponding relation between the described subcenter of control centre's storage; Need to prove that the programme content of a subcenter stored may be divided into several parts, backup to plural subcenter respectively, at this moment,, need to obtain the programme content of backup to plural subcenter according to the corresponding relation of described subcenter.
Step 203, each subcenter with the programme content of self storage backup to backup instruction in the corresponding subcenter of destination address that comprises.
When setting up subcenter at first, need the programme content that be uploaded to each subcenter be backed up according to Fig. 2 flow process, set up after the subcenter, also need the programme content that is uploaded to each subcenter is backed up according to Fig. 2 flow process.
In the backup procedure, the source subcenter copies the programme content of self storage to the purpose subcenter one by one, in the copy procedure, has stored a certain programme content if judge the purpose subcenter, in order to save memory space, then do not copy this programme content to the purpose subcenter.
The present invention increases the control centre in the content release net, the control centre is to the monitoring of all subcenter situations, the programme content that is uploaded to local subcenter is backuped to other subcenters, the present invention adopts and existing different programme content storage scheme, need not to be provided with again the center of the programme content of storing all programme contents and all backups, and, the control centre stores the descriptor of all subcenters, its memory capacity is far smaller than the memory capacity at center in the prior art, thereby has reduced the cost of content stores.Referring to Fig. 3, be the structural representation example of content release net of the present invention, comprise in the content release net having increased the control centre, and the center no longer is set, ground same as the prior art, each subcenter subordinate has a plurality of sub-edges.Arrow points among the figure is the backup direction of programme content, can backup each other between the subcenter.
Further, for the popular program content that makes each subcenter stored can be shared, the control centre also assesses the programme content of each subcenter stored, if be popular content, then send to other subcenters and obtain instruction, this obtains the address that comprises this hot topic content place subcenter in the instruction and indication information that should the hot topic content; After other subcenters receive this and obtain instruction, obtain this hot topic content to this hot topic content place subcenter, and storage.
Alternatively, described assessment can be carried out according to the characteristics of programme content, for example, if certain film is the Zhang Yimou director, then this film is evaluated as popular content; Described assessment also can be carried out the clicking rate of this programme content according to the user, and the program contents evaluation that user's clicking rate is high is popular content.
Further, programme content processing scheme of the present invention also comprises the issuing process of programme content: terminal sends program request to sub-edge, after sub-edge receives this program request, search whether store the user selected program content at the memory space of self, if having then give terminal with this content play;
If do not have, then the upper level subcenter to this sub-edge sends this program request, the indication information that comprises the user selected program content in this program request, after subcenter receives this program request, search whether store the user selected program content at the memory space of subcenter, if have then give this sub-edge with this down sending content, terminal is given with this content play again in sub-edge; If subcenter does not find this programme content at its memory space, then send this program request to the control centre, after the control centre receives this program request, in each subcenter of self storage, search the subcenter at user selected program content place in the indication information of institute's store program content, the positional information of the subcenter that arrives to the subcenter feedback search of request programme content; After the positional information that the subcenter receiving scheduling center of request programme content sends, obtain this programme content, store and play to terminal to the subcenter of this positional information correspondence.
Need to prove, issuing process at programme content, all programme contents of each subcenter stored all can play to terminal, the popular content that comprises the programme content of other subcenters of the programme content that is uploaded to local subcenter, backup, obtains from other subcenters, and the programme content that obtains from other subcenters according to the positional information that the control centre sends.The popular content of obtaining from other subcenters, for each subcenter according to the passive programme content that obtains of the instruction of control centre, in practice,, also can delete the popular content of obtaining from other subcenters in order to guarantee to have in the subcenter memory space of enough redundancies.
Referring to Fig. 4, be the system configuration schematic diagram that programme content of the present invention is handled, this system is the content delivery network system just, comprises control centre and a plurality of subcenter;
Described subcenter, be used to store the programme content that is uploaded to local subcenter, the backup instruction that the receiving scheduling center sends comprises the destination address of backup in the described backup instruction, subcenter backups to the programme content of self storage the subcenter of described destination address correspondence;
Described control centre, be used for monitoring to all subcenter situations, storage is to the descriptor of all subcenters, determine the subcenter that to back up and send backup instruction, the indication information of the programme content that backs up in the subcenter that storage is initiatively backed up and the corresponding relation between the passive subcenter that backs up to each subcenter.Certainly, this system also comprises subcenter subordinate's a plurality of sub-edge.
Alternatively, described control centre comprises that monitoring module and backup instruction issue module;
Described monitoring module is used for all subcenter situations are monitored, and storage is determined the subcenter that can back up and issue module to backup instruction to send backup instruction to the descriptor of all subcenters, comprises the destination address of backup in the described backup instruction;
Described backup instruction issues module, is used to receive described backup instruction, issues corresponding subcenter, and stores the indication information of the programme content that backs up in the subcenter that initiatively backs up and the corresponding relation between the passive subcenter that backs up.
Alternatively, described subcenter comprises memory module and backup module,
Described memory module is used to store the programme content that is uploaded to local subcenter,
Described backup module is used for the backup instruction that the receiving scheduling center sends, with the programme content of self storage backup to backup instruction in the corresponding subcenter of destination address that comprises.
Alternatively, described control centre comprises that the program acquisition instruction issues module, and described subcenter comprises the programme content acquisition module;
Described program acquisition instruction issues module, be used for the programme content of each subcenter stored is assessed, if be popular content, then send to the programme content acquisition module of other subcenters and obtain instruction, this obtains the address that comprises this hot topic content place subcenter in the instruction and indication information that should the hot topic content;
Described programme content acquisition module is used for program receiving and obtains the instruction of obtaining that instruction issues the module transmission, obtains this hot topic content to this hot topic content place subcenter, and storage.
Alternatively, described descriptor comprises the indication information of institute's store program content in each subcenter, and described subcenter comprises the programme content request module, and described control centre comprises the program request feedback module;
Described programme content request module, be used for the program request that receiving terminal sends by sub-edge, the indication information that comprises the user selected program content in this request, this programme content request module is judged subcenter and is not stored this programme content that the user selects, then send this program request to the program request feedback module, the positional information of program receiving request feedback module feedback is obtained this programme content to the subcenter of this positional information correspondence, stores and play to terminal;
Described program request feedback module, be used for the program request that program receiving content requests module sends, in each subcenter of control centre's storage, search the subcenter at user selected program content place in the indication information of institute's store program content, to the positional information of the user selected program content place subcenter that the feedback search of described programme content request module is arrived.
The present invention program can apply to the VOD service in the bi-directional digital television, also can apply to video telecommunication demand (telecommunication) service etc.
Among the present invention, each subcenter storage is uploaded to the programme content of local subcenter, and, the control centre monitors all subcenters, the programme content that utilizes the residue in subcenter stored space will be uploaded to local subcenter backups to other subcenters, adopt programme content processing scheme of the present invention, need not to be provided with again the center of the programme content of storing all programme contents and all backups, saved carrying cost; And, the programme content of a subcenter can be backuped at least more than one other subcenters, when the content collapse appears in a subcenter, can arrive the programme content that other subcenters obtain backup, like this, disperseed risk, can not go out the problem of programme content of the backup of all subcenters of active, reduced because of the influence that collapse brings losing of programme content takes place.
Above-described specific embodiment; purpose of the present invention, technical scheme and beneficial effect are further described; institute is understood that; the above only is specific embodiments of the invention; and be not intended to limit the scope of the invention; within the spirit and principles in the present invention all, any modification of being made, be equal to replacement, improvement etc., all should be included within protection scope of the present invention.