Patent ID: 8838828

Claim:
A method, comprising: marking, by a processor, each of a plurality of first video packets from a communication session with a first identifier in the first video packets, wherein the first identifier designates that bandwidth is reserved on a network for the first video packets; marking, by a processor, each of a plurality of second video packets from the communication session with a second identifier in the second video packets, wherein the second identifier designates that bandwidth is not reserved on the network for the second video packets; and initiating transmission of the plurality of first video packets and the plurality of second video packets in the communication session; monitoring an available bandwidth on the network; and adjusting, during the communication session based on the monitored available bandwidth, the bandwidth of at least one from a set comprising: the plurality of first video packets and the plurality of second video packets, wherein the bandwidth of the plurality of second video packets is adjusted by adjusting at least one from a set comprising: video frame rate, quantization, and video resolution.