Patent ID: 7934011
Filing Date: 2011-04-26
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A public network based video system having flow control, the system comprising: a network server configured to: send a data stream representative of an audiovisual sequence, directed to a communication device, via a public network, the audiovisual sequence including one or more temporal elements and one or more non-temporal elements; include particular elements of the audiovisual sequence in the data stream; send the data stream, via the public network, directed to the communication device at a data rate according to a data rate requirement; assign a unique identifier to one of the temporal or non-temporal elements; and transmit redirection data for the one of the temporal or non-temporal elements and the unique identifier to the communication device; and a communication device configured to: the network server further comprising a custom network server, the custom network server configured to: receive information, according to a redirection information, indicative of the unique identifier and the data rate requirement for each of a one or more identified active data; and include the particular elements in the data stream; and send the data stream at the data rate according to the data rate requirement.