Patent ID: 8347342

Claim:
A method implemented by a device for determining a value of a delay to be applied between sending a first packet and sending a second packet from a sender device to a receiver device over a network, comprising: obtaining data corresponding respectively to the first and second packets, the packets containing the data corresponding to NAL (Network Abstract Layer) units, which data is representative of a sequence of coded images, the coded images being coded according to a first level of resolution and at least a second level of resolution higher than the first level of resolution and the NAL units containing data of a single level of resolution; and determining the value of the delay to be applied between sending of the first and second packets, from the receiver device to the sender device over the network, the value of the delay being dependent on a number of decoded images that can be formed from the NAL units of the first packet, which NAL units contain data of the second level of resolution.