Patent ID: 11916798
Assignee: IMAGINATION TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 8:
9. A transmitting device for estimating available bandwidth for a network comprising the transmitting device and a receiving device, the transmitting device comprising:
a transceiver configured to transmit a media packet stream over the network to the receiving device, the media packets comprising media data for streaming media at the receiving device;
a controller configured to cause the transceiver to transmit one or more probe packets over the network so as to test the available bandwidth of the network, wherein each probe packet comprises duplicate media data of the media packet stream; and
a bandwidth estimator configured to determine, during transmission of the one or more probe packets, a measure of network bandwidth availability in dependence on one or more metrics associated with receiving the media packet stream at the receiving device.