Patent ID: 8078752

Claim:
A method of managing quantities of data transmitted by a transmission device over a telecommunication network, the method being performed by the transmission device, the method comprising: for at least a first data set and a second data set to be transmitted over the telecommunication network, obtaining a quantity of data within each data set and a time constraint on each data set, the time constraint on the first data set representing a time before which the first data set must reach a receiving device and the time constraint on the second data set representing a time before which the second data set must reach the receiving device; determining a bitrate for transmitting the first data set in accordance with the time constraint on the first data set; determining a bitrate for transmitting the first and second data sets in accordance with the time constraint on the second data set; selecting a maximum of the determined bitrates as a parameter for managing a quantity of data transmitted by the transmission device; determining a factor from a ratio of the maximum of the determined bitrates to a bitrate of a quantity of data transmitted previously between a first event and a second event wherein, when the ratio of the maximum of the determined bitrates to the bitrate of the quantity of data transmitted previously between the first event and the second event is greater than unity, the factor is equal to a predetermined value greater than unity or the factor is equal to the ratio of the maximum of the determined bitrates to the bitrate of the quantity of data transmitted previously between the first event and the second event; and managing the quantity of data transmitted over the telecommunication network by controlling a quantity of data transmitted between the second event and a third event, the quantity of data transmitted between the second and third events being a function of the determined factor.