Patent ID: 11902337
Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC H

Claim 12:
13. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions, the instructions comprising: one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a device for managing capabilities of a media streaming network, cause the one or more processors to:
receive a capability request for media streaming capabilities of an edge data network (EDN);
determine the media streaming capabilities of the EDN;
transmit a capability response based on the determined media streaming capabilities;
receive a media processing workflow request based on the capability response;
establish a media streaming session according to the media processing workflow request; and
stream media content based on the media streaming session,
wherein the capability request is received by a 5G media streaming (MS) application function (AF) from a media streaming application provider (AP), and
wherein a list, of a plurality of edge application servers (EASs) and any of environmental characteristics, a throughput and delay range, media processing function libraries, and input/output formats of functions, is transmitted from the 5GMS AF and to the AP through an edge discovery function (EDF) included in the AP, and
wherein a first capability request is transmitted using an edge application programming interface (API), and a second capability request is transmitted using a media streaming API.