Patent ID: 8687654
Filing Date: 2014-04-01
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for transmitting a packetized video stream over a network, comprising: receiving, at a computer, a frame of a video stream having a plurality of partitions of varying sizes, the plurality of partitions having an ordered sequence; identifying one or more of the plurality of partitions having a size that is less than a predetermined maximum; allocating the identified one or more of the plurality of partitions into a plurality of packets in a manner that (a) results in each of the plurality of packets having a size that is less than the predetermined maximum; (b) minimizes a cost value that is based at least in part on the difference between the size of the smallest one of the plurality of packets and the size of the largest one of the plurality of packets; and (c) maintains the allocated partitions in the ordered sequence; and transmitting the plurality of packets over the network.