Patent ID: 9060191
Filing Date: 2015-06-16
Classification: H04L,H04N,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method to determine quality of experience (QoE) in a wireless system, the method comprising: transmitting, by one of a service provider or a content provider, data to a user device, wherein the transmitted data is played back at the user device; in response to a determination that sufficient bandwidth is available to receive one or more selected portions of the transmitted data from the user device through an upload channel, in response to a determination that data upload and data download is shared through a same channel, performing, by one of the service provider or the content provider, the QoE computation using the one or more selected portions of the transmitted data; performing, b one of the service provider or the content provider at least one of spatial and/or temporal alignment between an unimpaired reference frame of the one or more selected portions of the transmitted data and a corresponding frame of received portions of the transmitted data and transmitting, by one of the service provider or the content provider, QoE computation results to a data store to subsequently analyze the QoE computation results and adjust QoE parameters based on the subsequent analysis of the QoE computation results.