Patent ID: 7978669

Claim:
A method comprising: characterizing a first packet of a video stream as being associated with a first frame type, wherein the video stream is arranged to be transmitted on a wireless local area network (WLAN), and wherein the video stream is a MPEG video stream and the WLAN is an 802.11 network; transmitting an initial packet of the video stream to a station; processing at least the first packet of the video stream as being associated with the first frame type if the first packet of the video stream is characterized as being of the first frame type; determining if a frame type associated with the first packet of a video stream is the first frame type, wherein the first packet of the video stream is characterized as being of the first type when the frame type associated with the first packet of the video stream is determined to be the first frame type; and processing the at least the first packet of the video stream as not being of the first frame type if it is determined that the frame type is not the first frame type; and receiving an indication of a frame type associated with the initial packet of the video stream, wherein if the indication of the frame type associated with the initial packet of the video stream is that the frame type associated with the initial packet of the video stream is an I-frame type, processing the at least the first packet of the video stream as being of the first frame type comprises processing the at least the first packet of the video stream as being associated with an I-frame.