Patent ID: 9491504
Filing Date: 2016-11-08
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method for monitoring quality of content, comprising: receiving a content item from a first content source via a communication network between a headend and a subscriber premises; determining whether a quality level of the content item from the first content source via a first delivery mechanism for connecting via the communication network is degraded below a threshold; if the quality level of the content item from the first content source via the first delivery mechanism for connecting via the communication network, between the headend and the subscriber premises, is degraded below the threshold, identifying if an alternative delivery mechanism of connecting via the communication network, between the headend and the subscriber premises, is available through which the same content item is provided over the network by the first content source with the quality level of the same content item above the threshold; if the alternative delivery mechanism of connecting via the communication network, between the headend and the subscriber premises, is available with the quality level of the same content provided by the first content source above the threshold, while continuing to receive the content item switching to the alternative delivery mechanism for connecting via the communication network, between the headend and the subscriber premises, to receive the content item from the first content source; if there is not an alternative delivery mechanism available where the same content item is provided by the first content source and is above the threshold, identifying a second content source that provides the same content item, the second content source providing the same content item at a second quality level above the threshold; in response to identifying that the second content source providing the content item at the second quality level above the threshold, switching to the second content source; and receiving the same content item from the second content source.