DETECTION AND MANAGEMENT OF ERROR CONDITIONS FOR WIRELESSLY DELIVERED MULTIMEDIA CONTENT

摘要

Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate the identification of multimedia content playback errors at a client device. Methods, systems, and computer readable media described herein are operable to monitor for packet loss and underflow conditions at a client device, alert instances of packet loss and/or underflow conditions, and initiate troubleshooting of problems in the delivery of content from an access point to the client device. Alerts and troubleshooting actions may be determined based upon packet loss instances and/or underflow conditions identified over a duration of content playback at a client device.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving, at a client device, multimedia content as one or more data packets, wherein the multimedia content is received over a wireless connection to an access point; identifying one or more packet delivery errors at the client device; determining that the one or more identified packet delivery errors indicates a content output error; and outputting an alert recognizing the indication of a content output error.