Patent ID: 9253528
Filing Date: 2016-02-02
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: storing a portion of a media stream having an unknown media encoding format within a buffer, wherein the portion comprises multiple media frames, and wherein the media frames in the portion each comprise a sync word; selecting a first media encoding format from multiple media encoding formats, wherein the first media encoding format is associated with a first sync word; comparing a sync word from each media frame in the media frames to the first sync word; in response to determining that the sync word from each media frame in the media frames matches the first sync word, comparing, by a processing device, a media stream property from each media frame in the media frames to media stream properties from each other media frame in the media frames, wherein each media stream property comprises information other than the sync word that does not change for ones of the media frames having the unknown media encoding format; and in response to determining that the media stream property from each media frame matches the media stream properties from each other media frame, identifying the unknown media encoding format as the first media encoding format.