Patent ID: 11936932
Assignee: MUX, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 17:
18. A method comprising:
accessing a video from a publisher;
during a first time period:
for each video player in a set of video players:
accessing, from a first media server, a first set of playback data representing playback events occurring during playback of the video at the video player;
based on the first set of playback data, characterizing the playback as one of user playback and crawler playback; and
in response to characterizing the playback as user playback, incorporating the first set of playback data to a set of user playback data;

based on the set of user playback data for the video, deriving a first error rate a set of errors occurring during playback of the video at the first set of video players;
accessing a first historical error rate of the set of errors occurring during playback of a set of videos comprising the video;
calculating a difference between the first error rate and the first historical error rate; and
in response to the first error rate exceeding the historical error rate:
generating an alert indicating the first error rate of the set of errors occurring within the set of video players exceeding the historical error rate; and
transmitting the alert to the publisher.