Patent ID: 8626499

Claim:
A method executing on hardware of a client device coupled to a network for managing the impact of signal latency on the reception of a multimedia signal by the client device, the method comprising: calculating, on the client device, a first moving average of the signal latency over a first period of time; calculating, on the client device, a minimum of a first moving average of the latency over a session; measuring, on the client device, a change in signal latency over some configured period of time; buffering, on the client device, a part of the signal having a length corresponding to a selected period of time prior to presenting it; skipping playback, on the client device, of a defined period of time of the signal if the change in signal latency exceeds some configured value; skipping playback, on the client device, of the defined period of time of the signal if the signal latency exceeds a first configured percentage of the measurement of the minimum of the first moving average; and skipping playback, on the client device, of the defined period of time of the signal if the signal latency exceeds a second configured percentage of the first moving average of the signal latency a third configured period of time after the last time a part of the signal was skipped.