Patent ID: 8305914

Claim:
A method comprising: a) measuring latency in video conference connections between more than two video conference sites participating in a video conference; b) comparing the measured latency for each connection to a latency threshold; c) based on results of comparing the measured latency for each connection to the threshold, determining, for each of at least two particular ones of the connections, that the measured latency is below the threshold, where each of the particular connections enables transmission of a video signal from an associated video conference camera and encoder at one of the video conference sites to another one of the video conference sites; and d) for each of the particular connections, adjusting, using a video controller, parameters of the associated video conference camera and encoder to increase a resolution of the video signal while maintaining bandwidth consumed by transferring the video signal at or below the bandwidth consumed by transferring the video signal prior to adjusting the parameters to increase the resolution as a consequence of having determined that the measured latency of the connection is below the threshold.