RATINGS AND QUALITY MEASUREMENTS FOR DIGITAL BROADCAST VIEWERS
First Claim
1. A method, comprising:
- receiving at a first receive-and-process (RP) system a first stream, the first stream comprising either a raw Internet protocol (IP) stream or a non-IP stream;
deriving a Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) stream based on the first stream; and
providing an RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) report based on the derived RTP stream, the RTCP report comprising information associated with a viewer experience corresponding to the first stream, wherein the information associated with the viewer experience comprises an indication of a service that is presented by the first RP system to the viewer, the service provided by the first stream.
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Abstract
In one system embodiment, a first receive-and-process (RP) system and a second RP system, the first and second RP systems each configured to receive a first broadcast stream corresponding to a service, the broadcast stream comprising either a raw Internet protocol (IP) stream or a non-IP stream, and each further configured to derive a first Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) stream and a second RTP stream, respectively, based on the first broadcast stream, the first and second RTP streams having stream parameters in common, the first and second RP systems each further configured to provide respective first and second RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) reports, the first and second RTCP reports based on the derived first and second RTP streams, the first and second RTCP reports each comprising information associated with a viewer experience, the respective information having a common benchmark as a basis for comparison.
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20 Claims
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1. A method, comprising:
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receiving at a first receive-and-process (RP) system a first stream, the first stream comprising either a raw Internet protocol (IP) stream or a non-IP stream; deriving a Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) stream based on the first stream; and providing an RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) report based on the derived RTP stream, the RTCP report comprising information associated with a viewer experience corresponding to the first stream, wherein the information associated with the viewer experience comprises an indication of a service that is presented by the first RP system to the viewer, the service provided by the first stream. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A system, comprising:
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a first receive-and-process (RP) system; and a second RP system, the first RP system and the second RP system each configured to receive a first broadcast stream corresponding to a service, the broadcast stream comprising either a raw Internet protocol (IP) stream or a non-IP stream, the first and second RP systems each further configured to derive a first Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) stream and a second RTP stream, respectively, based on the first broadcast stream, the first RTP stream and the second RTP stream having stream parameters in common, the first and second RP systems each further configured to provide a first RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) report and a second RTCP report, respectively, the first RTCP report based on the derived first RTP stream, the second RTCP report based on the derived second RTP stream, the first and second RTCP reports each comprising information associated with a viewer experience, the respective information having a common benchmark as a basis for comparison. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A device, comprising:
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a communications interface configured to provide to plural receive-and-process (RP) systems a first broadcast stream corresponding to a service, the first broadcast stream comprising either a raw Internet protocol (IP) stream or a non-IP stream; and processing logic configured to; receive plural Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) Control Protocol (RTCP) reports from the plural RP systems, the plural RTCP reports correlated to each other and each derived from information in the first broadcast stream, the plural RTCP reports each comprising viewer experience information associated with the respective plural RP systems, the respective viewer experience information having a common benchmark as a basis for comparison; compare the received plural RTCP reports; and provide a result based on the comparison. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
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