Patent ID: 8868234

Claim:
A communication system comprising: a communications processor configured to receive a collection of data from a local system; and a transceiver in communication with the communications processor and configured to transmit and receive data over a network according to a plurality of communication parameters; wherein the communications processor is configured to divide the collection of data into a plurality of data streams; to assign a priority level to each of the respective data streams, the priority level reflecting the criticality of the respective data stream; and to modify a communication parameter of at least one of the plurality of data streams according to the priority of the at least one data stream; and wherein the communications processor further includes a processing module configured to receive at least one of the plurality of data streams and to perform a bandwidth conserving technique to minimize the amount of redundant information within the transmitted data; and wherein the bandwidth conserving technique includes: parsing the one data stream into a plurality of objects; comparing an object of the plurality of objects to a previous version of the object to detect a change in the object; and transmitting the object only if the change from the previously recorded version of the object exceeds a threshold.