Patent ID: 8452884

Claim:
A method, comprising: an apparatus reporting a quality of a streaming of at least one media stream based on at least one selected quality metric, wherein said at least one selected quality metric is a quality of experience metric that is at least partially based on a decision by said apparatus whether at least one frame of said at least one media stream is a good frame, wherein said reporting of said quality of said streaming is further based on a quality metrics class defining how this decision is made, said quality metrics class selected by said apparatus from a pre-defined set of at least two quality metrics classes, wherein each quality metrics class in said pre-defined set of at least two quality metrics classes defines a different set of rules on how to decide whether a frame of said at least one media stream is a good frame, wherein selection of said quality metrics class comprises negotiating said quality metrics class between a client of said apparatus to which said media stream is streamed and a server to which said quality of said streaming is reported.