US Patent Issued to Akamai Technologies on Dec. 16 for "Reference-based video quality analysis-as-a-service (VQAaaS) for over-the-top (OTT) streaming" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,527, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Akamai Technologies Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Reference-based video quality analysis-as-a-service (VQAaaS) for over-the-top (OTT) streaming" was invented by Urvashi Pal (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides for automated techniques to measure full reference-based QoE or VQA-as-a-Service (VQAaaS) for an Internet video stream. Generally, the approach herein involves pre-calculating VMAF scores for given media and then correlating those scores with VMAF scores computed from actual playback segments for the given media. By leveraging the pre-calculated VMAF scores and corr...