Patent ID: 6151636
Filing Date: 2000-11-21
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
In a telecommunications system of the type including a computer network interconnected to a communications link via a first network access server, said communications link interconnecting source equipment to said first network access server, wherein said computer network is further interconnected to a remote communications link via a remote network access server, a transmission method comprising, in combination, the following steps:at the first network access server, receiving via said communications link a first data stream representing at a first level of compression a media signal provided by said source equipment;at the first network access server, processing said first data stream and generating a second data stream representing said media signal at a second level of compression less than said first level of compression;at the first network access server, forwarding said second data stream in said computer network destined for receipt by a remote user;at the remote network access server, said second data stream;at the remote network access server, processing said second data stream and generating a third data stream representing said media signal at a third level of compression greater than said second level of compression; andat the remote network access server, forwarding said third data stream along a remote communications link to said remote user.