Patent ID: 9531503
Filing Date: 2016-12-27
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: combining a first media packet, a second media packet and a third media packet of a stream of media packets into a first frame, the second and third media packets being media packets that follow the first media packet in the stream; combining the second media packet and the third media packet of the stream with a fourth media packet into a second frame, the fourth media packet being one of the media packets that follows the third media packet in the stream; combining the third media packet, the fourth media packet and a fifth media packet of the stream into a third frame, the fifth media packet being one of the media packets that follows the fourth media packet in the stream; and transmitting the first frame, the second frame and the third frame to a receiver over a secure tunnel, the secure tunnel comprising a Transport Layer Security (TLS) or a Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) tunnel; further comprising setting up the secure tunnel, the setting up comprising specifying a redundancy factor comprising a number of redundancy packets that are included with each transmitted frame on the tunnel; wherein each media packet comprises real time communication (RTC) data and is encapsulated with a redundancy header that comprises a sequence number, each media packet encapsulated before being combined into frames and being transmitted on the tunnel.