Patent ID: 8861346

Claim:
A multiplexer, comprising: a memory queue; and traffic management circuitry that detects one or more sequence patterns of video packets based on inter-packet spacing between the video packets to compute transmission times for data in at least one of the video packets and for video packets ahead in the one or more sequence patterns shared by the at least one of the video packets, determines the inter-packet spacing between the video packets by measuring an arrival of the at least one of the video packets to compute a packet spacing value and relating the packet spacing value to a sequenced length of the at least one of the video packets, computes transmission times to determine whether the at least one of the video packets stored in the memory queue is stale, and discards the at least one of the packets if the computed transmission times indicate data in the at least one of the packets is stale from not being transmitted from the memory queue by an estimated period of time.