Patent ID: 9602557
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04N

Claim:
1. A method comprising: generating, by a first computing device, a message header and a message body, wherein the message header comprises a header flags portion and a header fields portion, wherein the header flags portion corresponds to a first contiguous portion of the message header, wherein the header fields portion corresponds to a second contiguous portion of the message header that is non-overlapping with respect to the first contiguous portion, wherein the header flags portion includes a first flag of a plurality of flags and a second flag of the plurality of flags, wherein the first flag corresponds to a first field of a plurality of fields of the header fields portion, wherein the first flag has a value indicating a length of the first field, wherein the second flag indicates whether the header flags portion has a first size or a second size, and wherein the second size of the header flags portion is greater than the first size of the header flags portion; and inserting, by the first computing device, a message including the message header and the message body into a media stream to be transmitted from the first computing device to a second computing device.