Video stream measurement

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9015738-B2
Application number	US-201314024160-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 11, 2013
Priority date	Dec 1, 2009
Publication date	Apr 21, 2015
Grant date	Apr 21, 2015

Abstract

A video stream measurement method and system. The method includes receiving by a computing system, a video stream comprising plurality of timestamps located at specified intervals of the video stream. The computing system broadcasts the video stream for a user and decodes a first time stamp broadcasted during a first time period. The computing system monitors a user interaction function performed by the user and associated with the video stream. The computing system generates and transmits a report comprising a description associated with the user interaction function. The computing system receives an analysis associated with the report.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
broadcasting, by a computer processor of a computing system for a user, a video stream comprising plurality of timestamps located at specified intervals of said video stream;
during said broadcasting, first decoding by said computer processor, a first time stamp of said plurality of time stamps, said first time stamp broadcasted during a first time period;
during said first decoding, monitoring by said computer processor, a fir…

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Amsterdam Jeffrey D
• Hammer Stephen C
• Holladay Christopher E
• O'Connell Brian M

Classifications

• H04N21/47

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N21/4305

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04H20/82

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N21/6582

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N21/812

  Electricity · mapped topic