Delivery of media content to a user device at a particular quality based on a personal quality profile

• US 10,298,987 B2
• Filed: 05/09/2014
• Issued: 05/21/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 05/09/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Reibman, Amy Ruth, Liu, Zhu, Begeja, Lee, Renger, Bernard S., Gibbon, David Crawford, Shahraray, Behzad, Gopalan, Raghuraman, Zavesky, Eric
• Primary Examiner(s): Kumar, Pankaj
• Assistant Examiner(s): Tilahun, Alazar
• Application Number:
  US14/273,747
• Publication Number:
  US 20150326903A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,838 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1094 Inter-user-equipment sessions transfer or sharing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/613 for the control of the source by the destination control signals issued by the client directed to the server or network components specially adapted for selective content distribution H04N21/637
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/762 at the source reformatting of additional data in video distribution servers H04N21/2355
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/233 Processing of audio elementary streams monitoring, identification or recognition of audio in broadcast systems H04H60/58
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/234309 by transcoding between formats or standards, e.g. from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 or from Quicktime to Realvideo conversion of standards in analog television systems H04N7/01
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/234372 for performing aspect ratio conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25891 being end-user preferences retrieval of video data in a video database based on user preferences G06F16/739; arrangements for recognizing users' preferences H04H60/46; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2662 Controlling the complexity of the video stream, e.g. by scaling the resolution or bitrate of the video stream based on the client capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2668 Creating a channel for a dedicated end-user group, e.g. insertion of targeted commercials based on end-user profiles information retrieval from the Internet by querying with filtering and personalisation G06F16/9535; arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast H04H20/10; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; adaptation of message content in packet-switching networks H04L51/063
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/24 Negotiating SLA [Service Level Agreement]; Negotiating QoS [Quality of Service]

Abstract

A method includes receiving, at a server computing device, a request to stream media content to a user device. The request is associated with data identifying a personal quality profile. The method includes retrieving, via the server computing device, the personal quality profile associated with the data. The personal quality profile indicates media quality preferences. The method includes determining, via a processor of the server computing device, a version of the media content to send to the user device based on the media quality preferences of the personal quality profile and based on a delivery bit rate. The method also includes sending the version from the server computing device to the user device in response to the request.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, at a server computing device, a request to stream media content to a user device, the request including a media content identifier associated with the media content, and the request associated with data identifying a personal quality profile;

retrieving, at the server computing device, the personal quality profile identified by the data, wherein the personal quality profile indicates media quality preferences;

identifying, via a processor of the server computing device, a version of the media content to send to the user device based on the media quality preferences and based on a delivery bit rate, wherein the version is identified based on a particular coloration attribute, a particular display ratio attribute, a particular spatial resolution attribute, a particular temporal resolution attribute, a particular monocular attribute or a combination thereof indicated by the media quality preferences;

determining, at the server computing device, whether the version is available to the server computing device from a content source;

in response to a determination of unavailability of the version, generating the version at the server computing device by;

retrieving, at the server computing device, a particular version of the media content available to the server computing device from the content source based on the media content identifier; and

modifying, at the server computing device, a particular attribute of the particular version that is retrieved to generate the version, wherein the particular attribute is based on the media quality preferences and is based on the delivery bit rate; and

sending the version from the server computing device to the user device in response to the request.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving second data from the user device, wherein the second data identifies a second personal quality profile;

retrieving the second personal quality profile;

determining a second version of the media content to send to the user device based on second media quality preferences of the second personal quality profile and based on the delivery bit rate; and

sending the second version to the user device.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving second data, wherein the second data indicates a change to the personal quality profile;

updating the personal quality profile to an updated personal quality profile based on the second data;

determining a second version of the media content to send to the user device based on media quality preferences of the updated personal quality profile and based on the delivery bit rate; and

sending the second version to the user device.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a profile request from the user device;

sending a first media content item and a second media content item to the user device for display via a display device associated with the user device in response to the profile request, wherein the first media content item includes a first depiction of a scene, wherein the first depiction has a first characteristic associated with a first quality, wherein the second media content item includes a second depiction of the scene, and wherein the second depiction has a second characteristic different than the first characteristic associated with the first quality;

receiving a response to a query regarding a preference between the first media content item and the second media content item; and

generating the personal quality profile based on the response, wherein the personal quality profile includes a first media quality preference of the media quality preferences for the first quality, the first media quality preference based on the response.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein modifying the particular attribute of the particular version comprises:

sending the particular version to a proxy server; and

receiving the version from the proxy server.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein modifying the particular attribute includes changing a coloration of the particular version to generate the version.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein modifying the particular attribute includes changing a display ratio of the particular version to generate the version.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the particular version does not include closed captioning data, wherein the version includes closed captioning data, and wherein modifying the particular attribute includes:

generating the closed captioning data based on a transcription of audio data of the particular version; and

generating the version by adding the closed captioning data to the particular version.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein modifying the particular attribute of the particular version includes changing a spatial resolution of the particular version.

10. A server comprising:

a processor, and

a memory accessible to the processor, the memory comprising instructions executable by the processor to perform operations, the operations including;

receiving, from a user device, a request to stream media content to the user device, the request including a media content identifier associated with the media content, and the request associated with data identifying a personal quality profile;

retrieving the personal quality profile that indicates media quality preferences;

identifying a version of the media content to send to the user device based on the media quality preferences and a delivery bit rate, wherein the version is identified based on a particular coloration attribute, a particular display ratio attribute, a particular spatial resolution attribute, a particular temporal resolution attribute, a particular monocular attribute or a combination thereof indicated by the media quality preferences;

determining whether the version is available from a content source;

in response to a determination of unavailability of the version, generating the version by;

retrieving a particular version of the media content available from the content source based on the media content identifier; and

modifying a particular attribute of the particular version that is retrieved to generate the version, wherein the particular attribute is based on the media quality preferences and is based on the delivery bit rate; and

sending the version to the user device in response to the request.

11. The server of claim 10, wherein content of the version is changed to compensate for a visual deficit of a viewer associated with the personal quality profile.

12. A computer-readable storage device comprising instructions executable by a processor to perform operations, the operations including:

receiving a request to stream media content to a user device, the request including a media content identifier associated with the media content, and the request associated with data identifying a personal quality profile;

retrieving the personal quality profile, wherein the personal quality profile indicates media quality preferences;

identifying a version of the media content to send to the user device based on the media quality preferences and based on a delivery bit rate, wherein the version is identified based on a particular coloration attribute, a particular display ratio attribute, a particular spatial resolution attribute, a particular temporal resolution attribute, a particular monocular attribute or a combination thereof indicated by the media quality preferences;

determining whether the version is available to the processor from a content source;

in response to a determination of unavailability of the version, generating the version by;

retrieving a particular version of the media content available to the processor from the content source based on the media content identifier; and

modifying a particular attribute of the particular version that is retrieved to generate the version, wherein the particular attribute is based on the media quality preferences and is based on the delivery bit rate; and

sending the version to the user device in response to the request.

13. The computer-readable storage device of claim 12, wherein the operations further include:

receiving second data from the user device, wherein the second data identifies a second personal quality profile;

retrieving the second personal quality profile;

determining a second version of the media content to send to the user device based on second media quality preferences of the second personal quality profile and based on the delivery bit rate; and

sending the second version to the user device.

14. The computer-readable storage device of claim 12, wherein the operations further include:

receiving second data, wherein the second data indicates a change to the personal quality profile;

updating the personal quality profile to an updated personal quality profile based on the second data;

determining a second version of the media content to send to the user device based on media quality preferences of the updated personal quality profile and based on the delivery bit rate; and

sending the second version to the user device.

15. The computer-readable storage device of claim 12, wherein the operations further include:

receiving a profile request from the user device;

sending a first media content item and a second media content item to the user device for display via a display device associated with the user device in response to the profile request, wherein the first media content item has a first characteristic associated with a first quality, and wherein the second media content item has a second characteristic different than the first characteristic associated with the first quality; and

receiving a response to a query regarding a preference between the first media content item and the second media content item; and

generating a first media quality preference of the media quality preferences in the personal quality profile for the first quality based on the response.

16. The computer-readable storage device of claim 12, wherein modifying the particular attribute of the particular version comprises:

sending the particular version to a proxy server; and

receiving the version from the proxy server.

17. The computer-readable storage device of claim 12, wherein the personal quality profile is associated with a plurality of people.

18. The computer-readable storage device of claim 12, wherein the operations further include, in response to availability of the version, retrieving the version.

19. The computer-readable storage device of claim 12, wherein modifying the particular attribute includes changing a temporal resolution of the particular version to generate the version.

20. The computer-readable storage device of claim 12, wherein modifying the particular attribute of the particular version comprises changing a non-monocular attribute to a monocular attribute.