Patent ID: 6751239
Filing Date: 2004-06-15
Classification: H04J,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
A system for communicating multimedia information, comprising:an optical carrier network configured to communicate multimedia information; a plurality of optical network elements in the optical carrier network, wherein the plurality of optical network elements provide a low latency end-to-end connection; and a plurality of multimedia visualization centers, respectively coupled to the plurality of optical network elements, each multimedia visualization center comprising: multimedia presentation equipment suitable for creating and presenting multimedia information; and a visualization interface element coupled to a respective optical network element, the visualization interface element comprising: a transmitter element configured to encode multimedia information into SONET payload envelopes of a plurality of SONET frames for transmission in the optical carrier network, wherein the transmitter element adds coding information to each of the plurality of SONET frames, a receiver element configured to decode multimedia information from the SONET payload envelopes into a form suitable for multimedia presentation, wherein the receiver element decodes the coding information, and wherein the coding information provides information relating to video resolution, refresh rate and blanking intervals in each of the plurality of SONET frames to synchronize pixel clocks between the transmitter element and the receiver element.