Patent ID: 8706895
Filing Date: 2014-04-22
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer system including instructions recorded on a non-transitory computer-readable medium and executable by at least one processor, the system comprising: a bit stream analyzer configured to cause the at least one processor to detect a bitstream representing a streamed content file that is being streamed from a streaming server to a client over a network connection; an encoding rate extractor configured to cause the at least one processor to determine an encoding rate of the bitstream; a bit rate extractor configured to cause the at least one processor to determine a transfer bit rate at which the bitstream is being streamed; and a pause calculator configured to cause the at least one processor to determine a minimum wait time experienced at the client based on a Legendre transform of a graph based on bits downloaded as a function of elapsed real time, the minimum wait time being experienced during a playback of the streamed content file during which the streamed content file is paused, the minimum wait time being based on the encoding rate and the transfer bit rate.