Patent ID: 9438883
Filing Date: 2016-09-06
CPC Classification: H04L,H04N,H04W,Y02D

Claim Text:
1. One or more non-transitory computer readable media having instructions that, when executed, cause a dynamic adaptive streaming over hypertext transfer protocol (DASH) client on a user equipment (UE) to: download, by a processor of the UE, segments of a media stream from a server, the segments being DASH segments provided to the DASH client by a unicast access method or a broadcast access method, the segments to be received at the UE by a transceiver of a network interface and placed in memory of the UE; record, in the memory of the UE while monitoring download and playback of the segments of the media stream, a quality of experience (QoE) metric related to playback of the segments of the media stream, wherein the QoE metric includes an indication of a switch to the unicast access method or the broadcast access method; and transmit, from the UE using the transceiver of the network interface, the QoE metric to a QoE reporting server, wherein the QoE metric comprises a playlist metric to log a list of playlist elements for one or more playback periods in a measurement interval and the list of playlist elements includes a stop-reason parameter that includes the indication of the switch as a reason why a continuous presentation of a representation of the media stream was stopped.