CN107995295B - Network video application sharing management system based on cell virtualization server - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention discloses a network video application sharing management system based on a cell virtualization server. By constructing a network sharing management server, according to a user's network video application sharing application, a network video application account pool corresponding to the network video is selected from the network video application account pool. Access the video content provider's account and login password to the shared virtual machine allocated in the virtualization server, log in to the video content provider's network video application, and connect the shared virtual machine to the display terminal in the form of a remote desktop connection to display the network video application Interface or remotely played video content, in this way, the user controller receives the user's video control instruction and sends it to the corresponding shared virtual machine to control the network video application, thereby realizing the sharing of video resources.

Description

A Network Video Application Sharing Management System Based on Community Virtualization Server

technical field

The invention belongs to the technical field of computers, and more particularly, relates to a network video application sharing management system based on a cell virtualization server.

Background technique

The sharing economy has undoubtedly been one of the most talked about topics in recent years. From small shared charging treasures to large shared cars, people continue to explore all aspects of life that can be shared to improve resource utilization and reduce single-use costs.

However, the current sharing mainly focuses on entity sharing. Due to the problems of trust, authorization and recycling, there is no representative application of sharing in virtual space. Taking video as an example, in the age when the Internet was not yet developed, renting hard copies of video, such as VCD and DVD, was a traditional economic sharing method.

In the Internet age, video content providers use personal accounts to distinguish users to limit users' access. We can still share our accounts between people who know each other well. Because different people have different usage habits, different people watch videos at different times, and these non-overlapping times become the basis for sharing. Within a certain range, the greater the number of people, the greater the chance of sharing, but because of trust and withdrawal, sharing between strangers is basically impossible at present.

On the other hand, a user may only be interested in a small part of the content in the resource pool, but the current payment method of video providers is usually a membership system. Users who pay to become a member can access all the paid resources, otherwise they cannot access any paid resources. video. Some video content providers also offer a pay-per-resource method, but this method is usually expensive and far less cost-effective than membership. Therefore, users are faced with a dilemma. One is to choose a membership system, but most of the time is free, and the other is to choose to pay by resources, but the cost is high.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The purpose of the present invention is to overcome the deficiencies of the prior art, and to provide a network video application sharing management system based on a cell virtualization server, so as to realize the sharing of video resources.

In order to realize the above-mentioned purpose of the invention, the present invention is based on the network video application sharing management system of the cell virtualization server, including:

Display terminal, used for interface display when network video application is shared;

The user controller is used to file an application for sharing the network video application to the sharing management server;

The sharing management server is used to select the account and login password of the video content provider corresponding to the network video in the network video application account pool according to the sharing application of the network video application, and construct a system including the sharing application user and the access video content provider. The shared instruction of the account and login password, and send it to the virtualization server;

The virtualization server is constructed with multiple shared virtual machines, and after receiving the sharing instruction, allocates a shared virtual machine to the sharing application user;

A network video application controller, which is a piece of software running on the shared virtual machine, used to log in to the network video application of the corresponding video content provider on the shared virtual machine according to the account and password selected by the shared management server;

The display terminal is connected to the shared virtual machine in the way of remote desktop connection, and displays the network video application interface or the video content played remotely; the user controller receives the user's video control instructions, and sends it to the corresponding shared virtual machine, for the network video application Take control.

The object of the present invention is achieved in this way.

The present invention is based on the network video application sharing management system of the cell virtualization server. By constructing a network sharing management server, according to the user's network video application sharing application, it selects the network video application account pool corresponding to the network video and accesses the video content provider. Use the provider's account and login password to the shared virtual machine allocated in the virtualization server, log in to the online video application of the video content provider, and connect the shared virtual machine to the display terminal in the form of a remote desktop connection to display the network video application interface or remote playback. In this way, the user controller receives the user's video control instruction and sends it to the corresponding shared virtual machine to control the network video application, thereby realizing the sharing of video resources.

In addition, the present invention also has the following beneficial effects:

The invention originates from the idea of resource sharing in the local area network, uses virtualization technology to build a platform for sharing network video applications among neighbors and friends by using virtualization technology, and satisfies the network video application sharing restrictions by designing management rules. Optimize the use of video resources;

At the same time, the present invention can make users do not need to deploy equipment that actually runs network video applications at home, and can maximize resource saving and support the development of green economy by sharing and using community public equipment;

In addition, the present invention can smoothly integrate the user's original network deployment while providing the network video application sharing service for the user, and is compatible with systems that provide other virtualized computing services to the cell users.

Description of drawings

1 is a schematic diagram of a specific implementation of a network video application sharing management system based on a cell virtualization server of the present invention;

2 is a schematic diagram of a user sharing a plurality of video provider resources through resource access middleware, that is, the present invention;

Figure 3 is a schematic diagram of multiple users sharing the same virtual machine;

Figure 4 is a typical user flow diagram of the present invention.

Detailed ways

The specific embodiments of the present invention are described below with reference to the accompanying drawings, so that those skilled in the art can better understand the present invention. It should be noted that, in the following description, when the detailed description of known functions and designs may dilute the main content of the present invention, these descriptions will be omitted here.

Inspired by the sharing economy, a feasible network video application sharing management system is proposed in the present invention. The system is responsible for all account information as a resource access middleware, and users only need to order the content they need, and do not need to care about whether it is Membership still pays per resource.

At the same time, due to the competition between video content providers, the copyrights of different video content often belong to different providers. In order to watch their favorite content, users usually need to switch between different video providers, or deal with each members, or they can't watch the programs they are interested in as they want. A very common situation is that user U1 is a member of the video provider V1, U2 is a member of V2, and U1 and U2 are interested in the resources of V1 and V2 at the same time, then U1 also needs to apply for V2 membership, and U2 also needs to apply for it. Member of V1. In a shared environment, they only need to maintain the original membership status, and do not need to apply for two memberships at the same time, just staggered use.

FIG. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a specific implementation manner of a network video application sharing management system based on a cell virtualization server according to the present invention.

In this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 1, the network video application sharing management system based on the cell virtualization server of the present invention includes a display terminal 1, a user controller 2, a sharing management server 3, a virtualization server 4, and a network video application control system. device 5.

The display terminal 1 refers to a display device that can receive and display a remote desktop, which can be, but is not limited to, a smartphone, a smart TV, a traditional TV equipped with a network set-top box, etc., and is used for interface display during network video application sharing. The display terminal 1 is connected to the shared virtual machine by means of a remote desktop connection, and displays the network video application interface or the video content played remotely;

The user controller 2 is used to file an application for sharing the network video application to the sharing management server. In this embodiment, the user controller 2 is a software that runs on the user's mobile smart terminal (such as a smart phone or a tablet computer), that is, a mobile phone application (APP), which firstly brings up the network video application to the sharing management server 3. Sharing application, the corresponding video content provider's online video application controls the entire process of the user's online video application sharing. More generally understood, the user controller is like a remote control, which accepts various inputs from the user, forwards it to the server for processing, and then the response sent by the server will be presented on the display terminal 1

The sharing management server 3 is the control center of the network video application sharing management system. According to the network video application sharing application, the network video application account pool corresponding to the network video and the account and login password for accessing the video content provider are selected, and a The sharing instruction of the account number and login password of the application user and the access video content provider is shared, and sent to the virtualization server 4 .

In this embodiment, the sharing management server 3 also needs to perform the network video application account pool, user authentication and rights management for the network video application sharing application initiated by the user controller 2, so as to optimize the network video application sharing restrictions while satisfying the network video application sharing application. efficient use of system resources. In this embodiment, the online video application sharing restriction refers to the restriction on the number of devices installed and operated by the online video application service provider for a single account, the restriction on the number of simultaneous login IPs, and the like.

The virtualization server 4 is constructed with a plurality of shared virtual machines, which are used to provide virtualized PC desktop services to users in the cell. The virtualization server receives the sharing instruction of the shared management server, and allocates a shared virtual machine for the user's network video application sharing application. virtual machine.

In this embodiment, the virtualization server 4 virtualizes multiple shared virtual machines to form a shared virtual machine pool, that is, multiple shared virtual machines are constructed. Different shared virtual machines have different IP addresses, and display terminals of different users pass through IP address to access the designated shared virtual machine in order to use the desktop virtualization service provided by the virtualization server 4 .

In this embodiment, the virtualization server 4 includes two parts, one part is multiple shared virtual machines sharing physical hardware (the sharing here means that one virtual machine can be shared by multiple users); the other part is virtual machine management system. Among them, the shared virtual machine provides the same functions as a general personal computer (PC), except that the virtual machine does not occupy hardware resources by itself, but shares a set of physical hardware with other virtual machines. Each virtual machine is fully functional, has an independent IP address, and can receive remote desktop connections through authorization. The virtual machine management system mainly implements functions such as creating, modifying, starting, closing and logging off virtual machines according to the instructions of the shared management server.

The network video application controller 5 is a piece of software that runs on the shared virtual machine, and is used to log in to the network video application of the corresponding video content provider on the shared virtual machine according to the account and password selected by the shared management server; and then notify the user controller. 2. Controlling the display terminal 1 to display the network video application interface in the manner of remote desktop connection, and releasing the shared virtual machine and the selected account and login password after the user completes the network video application sharing.

The user controller 2 receives the user's video control instruction, and sends it to the corresponding shared virtual machine to control the network video application.

The above display terminal 1 and the user controller 2 form a client, and the shared management server 3, the virtualization server 4 and the network video application controller 5 form a server. There are multiple clients, corresponding to different users. The above description is for one user, that is, one client, but in actual use, the users are users of a cell, and the number of users is dozens, hundreds, or even thousands.

In this embodiment, the shared management server 3 and the virtualization server 4 are logically independent of each other, but are located on the same physical server during actual deployment.

In order to overcome the loss of video quality and transmission delay in long-distance transmission, as well as the scheduling challenges brought about by the significant increase in users, in this embodiment, the present invention is deployed in a cell environment, so the components that make up the cell network are also included. Necessary components such as routers, Optical Terminal Equipment (OLT), Optical Nodes (ONU) and Optical Distribution Network (ODN) etc. However, these components are considered general-purpose devices and are used only to aid in interpretation.

For the convenience of description, we describe each component involved in the present invention one by one according to the logical function. But in actual system implementation, these logical components may be located on the same device. For example, both the user controller and the display terminal can be deployed through smart phones and smart TVs, the virtualization server and the shared management server can also be deployed on the same host, and the network video application controller can be deployed in the virtualization server. in each of the shared virtual machines. At the same time, as the user scale increases, the virtualized server may also be composed of multiple hosts.

The present invention has the following advantages:

The invention based on the limited resource access of the sharing idea can make full use of the time difference of different users' access, share the authorized account and reduce the use cost of the user without violating the authorization of the resource provider. At the same time, since all accesses are sent from the server in the community computer room and are managed by unified procedures and policies, there will be no access conflicts or abnormal logins.

The limited resource access based on the sharing idea of the present invention can make full use of the long tail theory. Since the number of popular resources in a period of time is very small, many users will access these resources at the same time, so in the present invention, we can use a special virtual machine to play the most popular resources, provide one distribution point, and multiple Users access at the same time and share the resource.

The present invention introduces resource sharing middleware for aggregating contents of different resource suppliers, and brings a more comprehensive and convenient access mode to users. Users no longer need to switch between multiple resource providers or pay multiple times, bringing one-stop convenient services.

The invention is based on the deployment of the cell network, the whole cell shares a local area network, does not generate additional public network traffic, and does not need to worry about playback delay and quality loss. The method disclosed in the present invention can provide users with network video application sharing services while smoothly integrating the user's original network deployment, and is compatible with systems that provide other virtualized computing services to cell users.

The present invention can utilize virtualization technology to build a platform for sharing network video applications among neighbors and friends for users in residential quarters, and optimally use system resources while satisfying network video application sharing constraints by designing specific management rules. At the same time, the solution disclosed in the present invention can make users do not need to deploy equipment that actually runs network video applications at home, and can maximize resource saving and support the development of green economy by sharing and using community public equipment.

In the present invention, the user interacts with the user controller, and the result is presented to the user through the display terminal. The virtualized server, shared management server and network video controller handle the user's needs, and contact the video content provider to obtain the video resources required by the user after authorization. Therefore, the present invention has the following characteristics compared with traditional online video access:

1. In traditional online video access, there is a one-to-one correspondence between users and video content providers. When a user uses one App to access the content provided by the video content provider, multiple users need multiple Apps, and multiple bandwidth connections are generated between the user and the video content provider. In the present invention, the user only needs to connect with the sharing management server, and does not need to care who the video content provider is. Virtualized servers are responsible for establishing connections with specific video content providers, using dedicated high-speed broadband to bring the best video viewing experience. At the same time, in the state where multiple users share the same video, there is no need to establish multiple different connections between the server and the video provider, but only to establish a local area network connection between the shared server and the user;

2. In traditional online video access, users need to maintain their membership status. If the content of interest to the user comes from multiple different video content providers, the user also needs to switch accounts, and each account is paid separately. In the present invention, the concept of resource sharing middleware is introduced, and the sharing management system of the present invention is used as resource sharing middleware to eliminate the differences between different video content providers, so that users only care about what they want to watch, and do not have to worry about where to watch. , and its logical connection is shown in Figure 2. In the traditional way, the user can only establish a connection with the video provider 1 and 2 on the premise that they have the accounts at the same time, and also need to switch applications when accessing the content of different providers. In this way, all these complex operations are handled by the resource access middleware, and the user can get the result by entering the content he wants to see.

3. In the traditional online video access, although the user's account is always valid, the real use time of the user is relatively limited, and the use time of different users is different. This leads to problems such as low account utilization and repeated payment by different users. In the method disclosed in the present invention, we uniformly maintain a shared account pool, which is allocated on demand according to the user's needs, thereby reducing the use cost of the user, and at the same time, the user does not need to maintain his own account.

4. When multiple users access the same resource at the same time, it is only necessary to connect the requests of all users to the same shared virtual machine, as shown in Figure 3. In Figure 3, we only illustrate two users for simplicity, and more users can be accessed in an actual environment.

Next, we analyze a typical user usage flow, as shown in Figure 4, in order to understand the present invention more clearly.

(1), at first, the user opens the user controller in the mobile intelligent terminal (i.e. the user App in the system disclosed by the present invention), clicks or searches the video content that he is interested in, and sends a request to the shared management server;

(2) After receiving the user's click or search request, the shared management server determines which video content provider the corresponding video resource comes from, and then searches for available accounts and corresponding passwords from the online video application account pool, and virtualizes The server schedules a shared virtual host to process the user's request, and the shared virtual host starts the network video application controller;

(3), by running the App of the video content provider, the network video application controller logs in to the corresponding video playback provider based on the account and password obtained in (2), and obtains access to the video resources;

(4) Finally, a connection is established between the network video application controller and the display terminal, for example, based on a remote desktop access method, the video content is sent to the user's display terminal for playback.

For the typical user flow in Figure 4, there are several issues that need to be further explained:

1. There are three main reasons for establishing the connection between the shared virtual machine and the video content provider, rather than the user controller directly establishing the connection with the video content provider. The first is to solve the reliability problem of account management. In the way of using shared virtual machines, the distribution and recycling of accounts can be managed in a unified manner, and enforced according to established rules. However, if users are allowed to manage themselves, it will bring unexpected consequences. confusion. Secondly, using a shared virtual machine can facilitate multi-user sharing. For multiple users viewing the same resource, they can access the same virtual host and share the resource. Third, the present invention will bring more beneficial effects when used in combination with the publication number CN105656749A and the name "distributed wireless multi-screen virtual PC service system" published on June 8, 2016, and the equipment of the user end is lightened, And leave the heavy task to the server to handle. Users do not need powerful computing power, nor do they need to worry about product upgrades and other issues.

2. The online video application account pool maintains a status table, which records the current account password in the online video application account pool, the corresponding video content provider, account registration, account usage status, account utilization, and account last. Necessary information such as the time of a visit.

In this embodiment, a set of available account queues including accounts and login password entries are maintained, and the account and login password of the leader of the team, corresponding to the online video, and accessing the video content provider are selected for each assignment. Remove it from the available queue, and insert it into the account-in-use queue according to the resource duration requested by the user.

In this embodiment, the account recycling policy is divided into an explicit recycling policy and a default recycling policy. The explicit recycling policy refers to the recycling caused by the user actively exiting the user controller App and closing the display terminal. The default recycling policy is to recycle after the user completes the access to the video resource. If the user does not perform other operations after the time of the requested video resource, or there is no other operation after the video is played, the account will be recycled. The recovered account is inserted at the end of the available account queue, and the content of the status table maintained by the online video application account pool is updated.

Although illustrative specific embodiments of the present invention have been described above to facilitate the understanding of the present invention by those skilled in the art, it should be clear that the present invention is not limited to the scope of the specific embodiments. For those skilled in the art, As long as various changes are within the spirit and scope of the present invention as defined and determined by the appended claims, these changes are obvious, and all inventions and creations utilizing the inventive concept are included in the protection list.

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1. A network video application sharing management system based on a cell virtualization server, comprising: Display terminal, used for interface display when network video application is shared; The user controller is used to file an application for sharing the network video application to the sharing management server; The sharing management server is used to select the account and login password of the video content provider corresponding to the network video in the network video application account pool according to the sharing application of the network video application, and construct a system including the sharing application user and the access video content provider. The shared instruction of the account and login password, and send it to the virtualization server; The virtualization server is constructed with multiple shared virtual machines, and after receiving the sharing instruction, allocates a shared virtual machine to the sharing application user; A network video application controller, which is a piece of software running on the shared virtual machine, used to log in to the network video application of the corresponding video content provider on the shared virtual machine according to the account and password selected by the shared management server; The display terminal is connected to the shared virtual machine in the way of remote desktop connection, and displays the network video application interface or the video content played remotely; the user controller receives the user's video control instructions, and sends it to the corresponding shared virtual machine, for the network video application Take control. 2. The network video application sharing management system according to claim 1, wherein the virtualization server virtualizes a plurality of shared virtual machines to form a shared virtual machine pool, that is, to build a plurality of shared virtual machines. The shared virtual machine has different IP addresses, and the display terminals of different users access the specified shared virtual machine through the IP address, so as to use the desktop virtualization service provided by the virtualization server. 3. The network video application sharing management system according to claim 1, wherein the virtualized server comprises two parts, one part is a plurality of shared virtual machines sharing physical hardware; the other part is a virtual machine management system; A virtual machine provides the same functions as a general personal computer, except that the virtual machine does not occupy hardware resources alone, but shares a set of physical hardware with other virtual machines; each virtual machine has complete functions and has an independent IP address. The authorized remote desktop connection can be received; the virtual machine management system mainly realizes the functions of creating, modifying, starting, closing and logging out virtual machines according to the instructions of the shared management server. 4. The network video application sharing management system according to claim 1, wherein the shared management server maintains a group of available account queues comprising account numbers and login password entries according to the state table maintained by the network video application account pool. , select the account number and login password of the leader of the team, corresponding to the online video, and access the video content provider for each allocation, remove it from the available queue after the allocation is completed, and insert it into the account in use according to the resource duration requested by the user in the queue; Account recycling policies are divided into explicit recycling policies and default recycling policies. Explicit recycling policies refer to the recycling caused by the user actively exiting the user controller App and closing the display terminal; the default recycling policy is that after the user completes access to video resources If the user does not perform other operations after the time of the requested video resource is exceeded, or there is no other operation after the video is played, the account will be recovered; the recovered account and login password will be inserted at the end of the available account queue, and the online video application will be updated. The content of the status table maintained by the account pool.

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