US Patent 9380326 Systems and methods for media processing

A processing service provides content publishers and other such users with automated content processing (e.g., transcoding or other). The content publisher is enabled to provide content (e.g., media files) to an input location for applying various processing to the content. Upon determining that the content has been placed into the input store, the processing service may select an appropriate workflow to be applied to the content and execute the workflow. The workflow may be selected based on various attributes of the content, the publisher, or the input store, such as the file name, embedded metadata, file size, time of day and the like. The workflow can process the content and store the resulting content into an output store or provide the content to various viewer devices. The workflow may also be customizable by the content publisher via an API or other such interface.