US Patent 11910034 Network-based assistance for receiver processing of video data

An intermediary system and method may be provided for assisting a receiver system in processing video data which is streamed as a video stream to the receiver system via a network. The processing of the video data by the receiver system may be dependent on an analysis of the video data. The intermediary system may provide processing assist data to the receiver system which comprises an analysis result or a processing instruction derived from the analysis results. Accordingly, the receiver system may process the video data without a need for the receiver system itself to analyze the video data, thereby offloading computational complexity to the intermediary system. Compared to techniques in which most or all of the processing is performed by the intermediary system, an advantage of continuing to process the video data at the receiver system is that the receiver system may already decode the video stream while the video stream is decoded and/or analyzed by the intermediary system, thereby reducing the delay from transmission to display of the video stream.