Patent ID: 8626943
Filing Date: 2014-01-07
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for rate-control of a multimedia session for a client in a network, the method comprising: determining, by a server, whether a token bucket packet queue associated with the multimedia session is empty; calculating, by the server, a size of a frame to be transmitted to the client if the token bucket packet queue is empty; estimating, by the server, a client buffer level, the client buffer level being a buffer at the client and being associated with the multimedia session; waiting, by the server, for a time period associated with playing out a frame by the client and decrementing the client buffer level by the size of the frame to be transmitted to the client, upon a sum of the estimated client buffer level and the calculated size of the frame to be transmitted being greater than a client buffer size; and upon the sum being less than the client buffer size,