Patent ID: 9699489
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04N,Y02D

Claim:
1. An audio video display device (AVDD) configured for use in a home entertainment network including a server and a network communication path, comprising: at least one processor configured with instructions on at least one computer memory for monitoring a data buffer; the processor configured with instructions on at least one computer memory for comparing an amount of data in the buffer to an underflow threshold; the processor configured with instructions on at least one computer memory for causing the server to increase the rate at which data is transmitted to the AVDD over the network path responsive to the amount of data in the buffer falling below the underflow threshold; and the processor configured with instructions on at least one computer memory for causing the server to undertake at least one of, responsive to the amount of data in the buffer rising above an overflow threshold: (a) decreasing the rate at which data is transmitted to the AVDD over the network, (b) temporarily stopping transmission to the AVDD, wherein the server has an MPEG transcoder and the AVDD has a video decoder, and wherein responsive to first network conditions the MPEG transcoder transcodes a data stream to a lower bit rate stream and sends the lower bit rate stream faster than a normal operating data transfer rate, the first condition including network traffic exceeding a threshold.