NETWORK IMPAIRMENT SIMULATION FRAMEWORK FOR VERIFICATION OF REAL TIME INTERACTIVE MEDIA STREAMING SYSTEMS

• Main Authors: HUOPONEN, Jani, KHALAF, Saif, MCCOOL, Robert, YEGANEH, Soheil Hassas, CARDWELL, Neal, GUO, Kuangye, PENNARUN, Avery, SOMADDER, Gurudas, ZIMRING, Dov
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 12.02.2020
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS

A method performed at an electronic device includes: executing an application; establishing a session between the executing application, a remote server associated with the application, and a media device that transmits output from the session to an output device, wherein the output from the session includes output from the executing application; and presenting to users of one or more second electronic devices on which the application is not executing and/or installed a session identifier associated with the session, wherein the session identifier facilitates joining of the session by the second electronic devices and identifies a controller configuration implementable on each of the one or more second electronic devices for enabling the users of the one or more second electronic devices to interact with the session.