US 11,669,371 B2
Automated instantiation of virtual production control room
Michael Masek, Milford, CT (US); Zachary Spencer Madell, New York, NY (US); Steven Sneddon, Maplewood, NJ (US); Christopher V. Swisher, Maplewood, NJ (US); Christopher Joseph Zembower, Brooklyn, NY (US); and Kevin Fornito, Queens, NY (US)
Assigned to NBC UNIVERSAL MEDIA, LLC, Universal City, CA (US)
Filed by NBC UNIVERSAL MEDIA, LLC, Universal City, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 23, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/239,408.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/025,928, filed on May 15, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0357265 A1, Nov. 18, 2021
Int. Cl. G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 9/5044 (2013.01) [G06F 9/5033 (2013.01); G06F 9/5055 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for providing an environment comprising a virtual production control room (VPCR) for creating media content, the method comprising:
requesting, from a user, information regarding the environment to be provided;
receiving, from the user, the information; and
creating the environment by provisioning a plurality of resources for the VPCR from among a plurality of cloud computing resources based on the received information,
wherein:
the information comprises size information corresponding to the VPCR, the size information specifying a number of inputs and a number of outputs for the VPCR; and
provisioning the plurality of resources for the VPCR comprises querying a slot database regarding availability of virtual slot resources for the VPCR based on the size information.