Sony patents system to standardize quality checks for streaming video
Sony has been granted a patent for a method that collects and reports performance data in media streaming networks. The system uses a configuration framework to define which metrics to track and converts these settings into a format that matches the specific media stream being sent.
In the filing’s own words
A method of metrics collection and reporting in a service based architecture media streaming network, the method comprising the steps of: providing a metrics collection and reporting configuration framework to an application function using a media streaming provisioning interface, the metrics collection and reporting configuration framework defining the metrics to be collected and reported for a media session over the media streaming network.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method of metrics collection and reporting in a service based architecture media streaming network, the method comprising the steps of: providing a first metrics collection and reporting configuration framework to an application function using a media streaming provisioning interface; and converting the first metrics collection and reporting configuration framework to a second metrics collection and reporting configuration framework, the first and second metrics collection and reporting configuration frameworks each being metrics reporting data formats defining metrics to be collected and reported for a media stream streamed over a media session over the media streaming network, wherein the second metrics collection and reporting configuration framework is: compatible with a media format of the media stream streamed over the media session; and different than the first metrics collection and reporting configuration framework.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (Sony Group Corporation)
- Official title
- Terminal device, infrastructure equipment and methods
- Patent number
- US12756643B2
- Application number
- 18018467
- Filed
- Jul 15, 2021
- Granted
- Oct 6, 2026
- Inventors
- 1
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
H04L 43/08 Electricity & electronicsH04L 65/60 Electricity & electronicsH04W 24/08 Electricity & electronicsH04W 24/10 Electricity & electronicsMore from Sony in Networks & wireless
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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