Patent ID: 8356109
Filing Date: 2013-01-15
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for streaming a video from a sending endpoint to a receiving endpoint, wherein both of the sending endpoint and the receiving endpoint have multiple communication channels connecting the sending endpoint and the receiving endpoint to one or more networks, respectively, wherein the streaming video includes a plurality of intra-frame coded frames and a plurality of inter-frame coded frames, wherein in the method the sending endpoint performs: sending different ones of the plurality of intra-frame coded frames over more than one of the multiple communication channels having a connection-oriented protocol; determining whether an inter-frame coded frame is or is not a high priority frame, wherein an inter-frame coded frame is a high priority frame if a number of references to the inter-frame coded frame by other inter-frame coded frames is more than a threshold number; sending different ones of the plurality of inter-frame coded frames which are determined to be high priority frames over more than one of the multiple communication channels having a connection-oriented protocol; and sending different ones of the plurality of inter-frame coded frames which are determined not to be high priority frames over more than one of the multiple communication channels having a connectionless-oriented protocol.