Patent ID: 8837309

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a transmission quality device to generate an estimate of transmission quality in a communication session over a network based, at least in part, on a presence of frame loss events in the communication session and user perceptibility of the frame loss events in the communication session, wherein the transmission quality device includes a primary integrator configured to generate an instantaneous estimate of transmission quality of the communication session based, at least in part, on a presence of the frame loss events in the communication session and the user perceptibility of the frame loss events in the communication session and a secondary integrator configured to process the instantaneous estimate of transmission quality of the communication session over a time interval to generate the estimate of transmission quality over the time interval, wherein the first integrator is different than the second integrator; and a modulation network configured to generate a weighting factor corresponding to the user perceptibility of the frame loss events and applied to the instantaneous estimate of transmission quality of the communication session, wherein the weighting factor is increased during background noise and decreased during speech.