IMAGE FEEDING SERVER NETWORK

摘要

Technology is disclosed for feeding source images from image stores of client systems into an image processing system using image feeding servers (“the technology”). The technology includes multiple image feeding servers that can feed a source image to the image processing system, using which the image processing system can generate processed images to be served to end users. The image feeding servers can be installed at various locations, e.g., geographically spread, and more proximate to where the source images are stored. An image feeding server obtains the source image from the image store in original size, downsizes the source image, and transmits the downsized source image to the image processing system. The technology selects an image feeding server based on a score of the image feeding server. The score can be determined as a function of one or more image feeding server parameters, e.g., latency, workload, or computing resource.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
transmitting, by an image processing system, a request for response to a plurality of servers, the request for performing a task on a source image stored at an image store of a client system to generate a first image, the first image served as a processed image to a user device accessing content associated with the client system, the content including the processed image; receiving, by the image processing system and from at least a subset of the servers, a response from each server of the subset of the servers, the response including a corresponding score indicative of a match of the corresponding server to perform the task on the source image; sending, by the image processing system, a message to a first server of the subset of the servers to perform the task, the first server having a first score that exceeds a predefined threshold or is highest among the scores; and receiving, at the image processing system, the first image from the first server, the first image generated by the first server by performing the task on the source image.