Patent ID: 8451741

Claim:
A method for media layer adaptation in a real-time communication system having at least a sender and a receiver, said method comprising the steps of: determining on the receiver side, characteristics of a jitter profile measured over a plurality of packets sent in a media packet flow between said sender and said receiver, wherein said jitter profile characteristics includes information on how the jitter evolves over time; classifying the jitter profile based on the determined jitter profile characteristics and information representative of access used for communication between said sender and said receiver; wherein said classifying step comprises: making a first level of classification based on said information representative of access used; and making a second refined level of classification of the utter profile by comparing the litter profile with a set of different predefined types of jitter profiles specific for the used access; matching the classified jitter profile to an appropriate action for media layer adaptation; and initiating said action for adapting the media packet flow between said sender and said receiver.