Patent ID: 7953880
Filing Date: 2011-05-31
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of streaming a source content from a sender to a receiver via a network, wherein said source content comprises a plurality of content elements, the method comprising the steps of: determining, by the sender, a transmission rate; determining, in priority index order, a first set of content elements based on a rate constraint for the receiver, wherein said first set of content elements is associated with content elements of said source content within a transmission buffer, and wherein said rate constraint is based on said determined transmission rate; and determining, in transmission order, whether each of said content elements in said determined first set of content elements meets its associated delay constraint, and, if said content element does not meet its said associated delay constraint, identifying said content element not meeting its said associated delay constraint as a drop content element, and wherein said priority index order is based on at least one of the following: frame types associated with said content elements of said first set of content elements; an amount by which the distortion at the receiver is calculated to be decreased; an encoding scheme of said source content; and minimizing a coding dependency chain.