DELIVERY OF MEDIA CONTENT TO A USER DEVICE AT A PARTICULAR QUALITY BASED ON A PERSONAL QUALITY PROFILE

• US 20150326903A1
• Filed: 05/09/2014
• Published: 11/12/2015
• 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
• Granted Patent: US 10,298,987 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 associated with data identifying a personal quality profile;

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

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 and based on a 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 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 in the personal quality profile for the first quality based on the response.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the personal quality profile is associated with a single person.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the personal quality profile is associated with a plurality of people.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the server computing device transcodes a particular version of the media content to generate the version.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the version is a particular version of a plurality of versions of the media content available to the server computing device.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein content of a particular version available to the server computing device is changed by the server computing device to generate the version to accommodate a vision characteristic of a viewer associated with the personal quality profile.

10. A server comprising:

a processor, and

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

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

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

determining a version of the media content to send to the user device based on the media quality preferences and a 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. The server of claim 10, wherein content of the version is changed from a retrieved version of the media content to compensate for color blindness, stereopsis, or both, of a viewer associated with the personal quality profile.

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

sending a request from a user device to a remote computing device to have media content streamed to the user device, wherein the request includes data associated with a personal quality profile; and

receiving, at the user device, a first version of the media content in response to the request, wherein content of a version of the media content available to the server computing device is changed to the first version based on the personal quality profile.

14. The computer-readable storage device of claim 13, wherein the operations further include sending the first version to a display device associated with user device.

15. The computer-readable storage device of claim 13, wherein the data associated with the personal quality profile includes identifiers that enable the server computing device to retrieve the personal quality profile from a database.

16. The computer-readable storage device of claim 13, wherein the data includes a portion of the personal quality profile that enables the server to determine a spatial resolution and a temporal resolution for the first version.

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

adjusting the first version to provide a second version to accommodate a quality preference associated with the personal quality profile, and

sending the second version to a display device associated with the user device.

18. The computer-readable storage device of claim 17, wherein the quality preference comprises a visual preference.

19. The computer-readable storage device of claim 17, wherein the characteristic comprises an audio characteristic.

20. The computer-readable storage device of claim 17, wherein the operations further include:

receiving a profile request; and

presenting inquiries at a user interface of the user device to prompt responses for determining quality preferences.