Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for network based media processing. For example, an apparatus in a cloud for network based media processing (NBMP) includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry receives information associated with an entity in the cloud for NBMP. The processing circuitry obtains an NBMP entity identifier from the information associated with the entity. Then, the processing circuitry interprets the information associated with the entity based on the NBMP entity identifier.