PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16127744
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["709", "231000"]

Abstract:
Methods, systems, and devices are described to proactively adapt media streaming by a number of media player clients over a network. Each media player requests segments of an adaptive media stream for playback. In implementations, some or all of the media players in the system are able to measure packet loss or other indicia of issues with the data transmission. This indicia can be used to adapt subsequent requests for additional segments of the media stream. Moreover, some implementations could provide the measured packet loss or other indicia to the server as feedback. The server, in turn, can use the feedback from the players (along with any other additional information) to formulate business rules subsequently delivered to some or all of the players in the system. The media players can therefore adapt their segment request based upon locally measured data and/or based upon business rules that reflect system-wide conditions.

Claim (Index 1):
A method executable by a first media player device to proactively request segments of a first media stream from a server over a network, the method comprising:\n placing requests from the first media player device for segments of the first media stream to be delivered to the first media device via the network by the server; measuring, at the first media player device, a local error rate of data received from the server by the first media player device over the network; reporting the local error rate measured by the first media player device to the server; in response to reporting the local error rate to the server, receiving business rules from the server formulated utilizing the local error rate and a plurality of other error rates reported by additional media player devices communicating with the server via the network; and proactively adapting subsequent requests placed by the first media player device for segments of the first media stream based upon the local error rate and the business rules, the business rules instructing the first media player device to avoid a congested network path in placing additional requests for segments of the media stream even when the local error rate measured by the first media player device is low.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 45.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.88506
- Patent Class: 709.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14145115', '13840503', '13843411', '14754541', '15912283']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2539197930088051
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4827006898556956
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2767978826934942
- Mean Citation Score: 178.716868
- Max Citation Score: 273.93942000000004
- Similarity Product: 265.929607634343

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test