Interaction modalities for multimedia delivery and presentation

• US 9,894,131 B2
• Filed: 04/06/2015
• Issued: 02/13/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/15/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Basso, Andrea, Haratsch, Erich, Haskell, Barin Geoffry, Ostermann, Joern
• Primary Examiner(s): Hu, Jensen
• Application Number:
  US14/679,493
• Publication Number:
  US 20150215366A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,044 Days
• Field of Search: 725120
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/61 for supporting one-way streaming services, e.g. Internet radio
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/80 Responding to QoS
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2343 involving reformatting operations of video signals for distribution or compliance with end-user requests or end-user device requirements video transcoding H04N19/40; media packet handling at the source H04L65/762
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44209 Monitoring of downstream path of the transmission network originating from a server, e.g. bandwidth variations of a wireless network arrangements for maintenance or administration in data switching networks involving bandwidth and capacity management H04L41/0896
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4424 Monitoring of the internal components or processes of the client device, e.g. CPU or memory load, processing speed, timer, counter or percentage of the hard disk space used error monitoring in general G06F11/30; arrangements for monitoring conditions of receiving stations in broadcast systems H04H60/32; diagnosis, testing or measuring for television receivers H04N17/04
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6371 directed to network
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6373 for rate control , e.g. request to the server to modify its transmission rate flow control in packet networks H04L47/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6377 directed to server one-way streaming services wherein the source is controlled by the destination H04L65/613
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6379 directed to encoder , e.g. for requesting a lower encoding rate
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/658 Transmission by the client directed to the server
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

A method and apparatus for displaying received data, analyze the quality of the displayed data formulating a media-parameter suggestion for the encoder to alter the characteristics of data to be sent to the receiver, and sending from the receiver, the formulated suggestion.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

transmitting, over a network, first data for display;

receiving, over the network, media-parameter feedback that is automatically generated by a client device that displays the first data as display data, the media-parameter feedback identifying a quality of the displayed data;

identifying additional data to be transmitted with respect to the first data, the additional data to be transmitted comprising media data;

altering, via a processor and based on a status of a transmitter, one of a screen size and a color depth of the additional data to be transmitted based on the media-parameter feedback, to yield second data; and

transmitting, over the network, the second data for display.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the media-parameter feedback comprises timing information associated with collection of the first data.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the media-parameter feedback further comprises a time to honor the media-parameter feedback.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the media-parameter feedback comprises a feedback to perform one of altering a frame rate, altering a color depth, altering a window size, altering audio channel characteristics, altering a graphics hardware load, altering a central-processing unit load, and altering an available memory.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein an analysis determines an improvement in quality at the display which will occur by implementing the media-parameter feedback.

6. A system comprising:

a processor; and

a computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored which, when executed by the processor, result in the processor performing operations comprising;

transmitting, over a network, first data for display;

receiving, over the network, media-parameter feedback that is automatically generated by a client device that displays the first data to yield display data, the media-parameter feedback identifying a quality of the displayed data;

identifying media data to be transmitted as additional data with respect to the first data;

altering, based on a status of a transmitter, one of a screen size and a color depth of the media data to be transmitted based on the media-parameter feedback, to yield second data; and

transmitting the second data for display.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the media-parameter feedback comprises timing information associated with collection of the first data.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the media-parameter feedback further comprises a time to honor the media-parameter feedback.

9. The system of claim 6, wherein the media-parameter feedback comprises a feedback to perform one of altering a frame rate, altering a color depth, altering a window size, altering audio channel characteristics, altering a graphics hardware load, altering a central-processing unit load, and altering an available memory.

10. The system of claim 6, wherein an analysis determines an improvement in quality at the display which will occur by implementing the media-parameter feedback.

11. A computer-readable storage device having instructions stored which, when executed by a computing device, result in the computing device performing operations comprising:

transmitting, over a network, first data for display;

receiving, over the network, media-parameter feedback that is automatically generated by a client device that displays the first data as display data, the media-parameter feedback identifying a quality of the displayed data;

identifying additional data to be transmitted with respect to the first data, the additional data to be transmitted comprising media data;

checking a status of a transmitter;

altering, based on the status, one of a screen size and a color depth of the additional data to be transmitted based on the media-parameter feedback, to yield second data; and

transmitting the second data for display.

12. The computer-readable storage device of claim 11, wherein the media-parameter feedback comprises timing information associated with collection of the first data.

13. The computer-readable storage device of claim 12, wherein the media-parameter feedback further comprises a time to honor the media-parameter feedback.

14. The computer-readable storage device of claim 11, wherein the media-parameter feedback comprises a feedback to perform one of altering a frame rate, altering a color depth, altering a window size, altering audio channel characteristics, altering a graphics hardware load, altering a central-processing unit load, and altering an available memory.

15. The computer-readable storage device of claim 11, wherein an analysis determines an improvement in quality at the display which will occur by implementing the media-parameter feedback.