Patent ID: 9143814
Filing Date: 2015-09-22
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A digital video recorder for transferring video content to a client device over a communication network, comprising: a storage unit for storing the video content; a communications interface for transmitting the video content to the client device over the communication network; a controller coupled to the storage unit and the communications interface, wherein the controller determines, during transmission of the video content to the client device, a supportable transmission rate of the communication network and then adaptively selects an encoding standard and selects an encoding rate according to the determined supportable transmission rate of the communications network; and a transcoder, coupled to the controller, the storage unit, and the communications interface for transcoding the video content from a first encoding standard and a first encoding rate to the selected encoding standard and the selected encoding rate during the transmission of the video content to the client device according to the adaptively selected encoding standard and encoding rate; wherein the selected encoding standard and selected encoding rate is determined according to an allocation of the supportable transmission rate between the client device and at least one other client device.