Patent ID: 8379609

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; 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 at a link data rate over a wireless communication path, the RF server transceiver module receives streaming video performance signals that are based on a remote processing of the streaming video, and wherein the RF server transceiver module includes a quality of service module that computes a range of the link data rate that establishes a bound of variation of permissible link data rate values, adjusts the link data rate based on the streaming video performance signals within the bound of permissible link data rate values, and the further adjusts the range of the link data rate; 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 that 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.