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US 9,438,883 B2Granted
Quality of experience reporting for combined unicast-multicast/broadcast streaming of media content
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorOzgur Oyman
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Abstract
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe devices, methods, computer-readable media and systems configurations for monitoring and reporting quality of experience (QoE) metrics that are associated with an access method. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
Claims12
One or more non-transitory computer readable media having instructions that, when executed, cause a dynamic adaptive streaming over hypertext transfer protocol (DASH) client on a user equipment (UE) to:
- download, by a processor of the UE, segments of a media stream from a server, the segments being DASH segments provided to the DASH client by a unicast access method or a broadcast access method, the segments to be received at the UE by a transceiver of a network interface and placed in memory of the UE;
- record, in the memory of the UE while monitoring download and playback of the segments of the media stream, a quality of experience (QoE) metric related to playback of the segments of the media stream, wherein the QoE metric includes an indication of a switch to the unicast access method or the broadcast access method;
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- transmit, from the UE using the transceiver of the network interface, the QoE metric to a QoE reporting server,
- wherein the QoE metric comprises a playlist metric to log a list of playlist elements for one or more playback periods in a measurement interval and the list of playlist elements includes a stop-reason parameter that includes the indication of the switch as a reason why a continuous presentation of a representation of the media stream was stopped.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a media player having a processor to download segments of a media stream from a server, the segments provided by a unicast access method or a broadcast access method;
- a quality of experience (QoE) monitoring module coupled to the media player, the QoE monitoring module to:
- record, in memory of the apparatus while monitoring download and playback the segments of the media stream, a QoE metric related to the playback of the segments of the media stream, wherein the QoE metric includes an indication of a switch to the unicast access method or the broadcast access method;
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- transmit the QoE metric to a QoE reporting server,
- wherein the QoE metric comprises a playlist metric to log a list of playlist elements for one or more playback periods in a measurement interval and the list of playlist elements includes a stop-reason parameter that includes the indication of the switch as a reason why a continuous presentation of a representation of the media stream was stopped.
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A method comprising:
- downloading, by a processor of a user equipment, segments of a media stream from a server, the segments provided to a dynamic adaptive streaming over hypertext transfer protocol (DASH) client by a unicast access method or a broadcast access method;
- recording, in memory of the user equipment, while monitoring download and playback of the segments, a quality of experience (QoE) metric related to the playback of the segments of the media stream, wherein the QoE metric includes an indication of a switch to the unicast access method or the broadcast access method;
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- transmitting, by the user equipment, the QoE metric to a QoE reporting server,
- wherein the QoE metric comprises a playlist metric to log a list of playlist elements for one or more playback periods in a measurement interval and the list of playlist elements includes a stop-reason parameter that includes the indication of the switch as a reason why a continuous presentation of a representation of the media stream was stopped.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.