Patent ID: 8769591

Claim:
A method, comprising: transmitting a burst transfer to a remote endpoint, the burst transfer including data packets extracted from a video stream; wherein the burst transfer is a continuous data stream that includes an initial portion at an initial transfer rate ((1+E)R) and a subsequent portion at a reduced subsequent transfer rate (ER), wherein R is a transfer rate of the video stream and E is a fraction amount of excess bandwidth; wherein transmission of the subsequent portion of the burst transfer begins at the transition instant and continues through a time that the remote endpoint actually joins the video stream; wherein the burst transfer begins at an intra-coded frame; wherein the initial portion includes the data packets from the intra-coded frame to a first latest occurring data packet (N); wherein the subsequent portion includes the data packets from the first latest occurring data packet (N) to a second latest occurring data packet (Z), wherein the second latest occurring data packet is determined as: Z = ( Δ ⁢ ⁢ J ) ⁢ R + H E , wherein H is a sequence number difference between the video stream and a position of a preceding start of the intra-coded frame, and wherein ΔJ is a join latency.