Patent ID: 7103669
Filing Date: 2006-09-05
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of communicating video from a sender to a receiver over a network comprising: receiving a frame; accessing information that characterizes a first path in the network and information that characterizes a second path in the network that includes a relay device not on the first path; determining if the frame is from a first sub-sequence of frames; when the frame is from the first sub-sequence of frames, encoding the frame using video encoding parameters that are selected according to the information that characterizes the first path, packetizing the frame into at least a packet, and sending the packet via the first path; and otherwise, when the frame is from a second sub-sequence of frames and not from the first sub-sequence of frames, encoding the frame using video encoding parameters that are selected according to the information that characterizes the second path, packetizing the frame into at least a packet, and sending the packet via the second path.