Patent ID: 8363548

Claim:
A method for indicating a priority of a packet comprising: receiving a stream of encoded video information; segmenting the stream into a plurality of segments, wherein each segment of the plurality of segments is associated with a priority indicator which is included in the encoded video information; encapsulating a first group of segments of the plurality of segments in a payload of an Internet Protocol (IP) packet, the first group of segments comprising a plurality of segments; providing priority information based on the priority indicator of each of the first group of segments in a header of the IP packet, wherein providing the priority information based on the priority indicator of each of the first group of segments in the header of the IP packet comprises: determining a number of segments of the group of segments having a priority indicator indicating a high priority of the respective segment, and setting the priority information to a value based on one of a plurality of number ranges to which the number corresponds; and effecting delivery of the IP packet.