System and method for balanced user experience in a multimedia conferencing community

摘要

Various embodiments of methods and systems for balancing user experience in a multimedia conferencing community are disclosed. An exemplary embodiment envisions a portable computing device (“PCD”) receiving data indicative of one or more visual multimedia parameter settings in a companion PCD of the community. Based on the received data, the PCD may determine an adjustment to the settings of one or more of its own visual multimedia parameters such that a multimedia output in the form of a data packet stream is adjusted. In this way, the PCD may conserve power consumption by avoiding unnecessary multimedia workload processing for encoding a multimedia output that would not benefit the quality of service (“QoS”) delivered by the companion PCD. Additionally, by optimizing the quality of the multimedia output in view of the companion device parameter settings, the PCD may allocate more of its power budget to improving its own QoS level.

主权项

1. A method for balancing user experience in a multimedia conferencing community using intelligent multimedia-based thermal power management in a portable computing device (“PCD”), the method comprising:
receiving data for one or more visual multimedia parameter settings in a companion PCD, each PCD comprising thermal policy manager module coupled to a graphics processing unit (GPU) and an encoder, the thermal policy manager module capable of adjusting codec settings for encoding and decoding multimedia data packets used by the encoder in order to conserve power when the PCD is receiving energy from a finite power supply; for each visual multimedia parameter setting, determining a relationship between a respective visual multimedia parameter setting and user experience relative to the visual multimedia parameter setting and power consumption associated with the respective visual multimedia parameter setting; based on the visual multimedia parameter settings in a companion PCD, the thermal policy manager determining an adjustment to one or more visual multimedia parameter settings that include codec settings in the PCD, wherein the settings of the one or more visual multimedia parameters contributes to an overall multimedia workload in the PCD; adjusting the one or more visual multimedia parameter settings according to the determined adjustment, wherein adjusting the settings modifies a multimedia output.