Method and system for providing recommendations for internet content providers

• US 7,716,321 B2
• Filed: 11/01/2006
• Issued: 05/11/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/01/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Electronics Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Electronics Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Dacosta, Behram Mario
• Primary Examiner(s): Dalencourt; Yves
• Application Number:
  US11/591,091
• Publication Number:
  US 20080104228A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,287 Days
• Field of Search: 709/203, 709/223, 709/224
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/611 for multicast or broadcast systems for broadcast or conference H04L12/18; arrangements for broadcast or distribution combined with broadcast H04H20/00; arrangements for broadcast applications with a direct linkage to broadcast information or to broadcast space-time H04H60/00; selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS], H04W4/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/80 Responding to QoS
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/75 Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display

Abstract

A user'"'"'s content presentation device automatically measures the technical objective quality of an Internet video stream and/or estimates the perceived subjective quality of the stream, and provides feedback to the user regarding one or both of these estimates.

Claims

1. A consumer content presentation device, comprising:

at least one processor;

at least one Internet interface configured to receive audio/video signals from the Internet; and

at least one monitor for presenting the audio/video signals to an end consumer, wherein

the processor determines a quality of service (QoS) and/or quality of experience (QoE) for signals from at least one Web site on the Internet and causes an indication of the QoS and/or QoE to be presented on the monitor along with an indication of the associated Web site such that the end consumer can ascertain the QoS and/or QoE being provided by the Web site.

2. The content presentation device of claim 1, wherein the QoS is determined based at least in part on packet error rates (PER) and/or packet jitter and/or packet round-trip times (RTT) and/or streaming protocol and/or video codec and/or source content bit-rate.

3. The content presentation device of claim 2, wherein QoS is directly proportional to the source bit rates and is inversely proportional to PER, packet jitter, and packet RTT.

4. The content presentation device of claim 3, wherein the content presentation device includes a video decoder and a dejitter buffer, and QoS is measured on signals input to the video decoder after the de-jitter buffer.

5. The content presentation device of claim 1, wherein QoS is used to derive a QoE, the QoE modifying QoS to account for at least one device-specific parameter, an indication of QoE being presented on the monitor.

6. The content presentation device of claim 5, wherein the parameter includes error concealment.

7. The content presentation device of claim 5, wherein the parameter includes content presentation capabilities of the monitor.

8. The content presentation device of claim 1, further comprising a TV tuner.

9. A method for presenting an end consumer user with an indication of quality of video received from plural Web sites, comprising:

for each Web site, determining at least a QoS and/or QoE representing the quality of video from the Web site relative to an end consumer video monitor receiving video from the web site; and

presenting a graphical user interface (GUI) on a monitor listing the Web sites along with corresponding indications of the QoS/QoE associated therewith.

10. The method of claim 9, comprising:

determining QoS based at least in part on packet error rates (PER) and/or packet jitter and/or packet round-trip times (RTT) and/or streaming protocol and/or video codec and/or source content bit-rate.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein QoS is directly proportional to the source bit rates and is inversely proportional to PER, packet jitter, and packet RTT.

12. The method of claim 9, comprising measuring QoS on signals input to a video decoder after a de-jitter buffer.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein QoS is used to derive a QoE, the QoE modifying QoS to account for at least one device-specific parameter.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the parameter includes error concealment.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the parameter includes content presentation capabilities of the monitor.

16. A system comprising:

means embodied in an end user display device for digitally processing signals;

means embodied in the end user display device for displaying video streams;

means embodied in the end user display device for receiving Internet signals; and

logic means embodied in the end user display device and executable by the means for digitally processing for causing the means for displaying to display sources of Internet signals in a first column and indications of signal quality from the sources in a second column juxtaposed with the first column.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein means for digitally processing includes a processor, the means for digitally displaying includes a monitor, and the logic means are embodied on a memory.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the indications of signal quality represent QoS that is directly proportional to the source bit rates and is inversely proportional to PER, packet jitter, and packet RTT.

19. The system of claim 17, wherein the indications of signal quality represent a QoE accounting for error concealment and/or content presentation capabilities of the monitor.

20. The system of claim 16, comprising a TV tuner.