Patent ID: 7984177

Claim:
A multimedia client/server system comprising: a multimedia server module, coupleable to a plurality of multimedia sources that produce at least one multimedia signal that includes streaming video, the multimedia server module including: an encoder module that encodes the at least one multimedia signal to produce an encoded signal that includes a sequence of packets having a packet size; and an RF server transceiver module, coupled to the encoder module, that produces a channel signal that includes the encoded signal, and that wirelessly transmits the channel signal over a wireless communication path, the RF server transceiver module receives streaming video performance signals that are based on remote processing of the streaming video by a video decoder, the streaming video performance signals including a video decoding parameter of the video decoder, wherein the video decoding parameter includes at least one of: a receiving buffer level, a rendering buffer level and a decoding buffer level, and includes a quality of service module that adjusts the packet size based on the streaming video performance signals; and a client module, coupleable to at least one client device, the client module including: an RF client transceiver module that receives and demodulates the channel signal to produce a received encoded signal and sends the streaming video performance signals to the multimedia server module; and a decoder module, coupled to the RF client transceiver module, that decodes the received encoded signal into a decoded output signal, the decoder module including the video decoder.