Patent ID: 8793749

Claim:
A digital electronic device incorporated at a front end of an Internet based digital program source that supports program transmission to a recipient device via a transmission path, the digital electronic device comprising: a digital program decoding module; an adaptive digital program encoding module; a feedback controller unit; the digital program decoding module decodes incoming Internet Protocol (IP) program packets and extracts digital audio and video data there from in a standard format; the feedback controller unit receives configuration data from the recipient device wherein the configuration data is based upon a transmission path characteristic and a recipient device characteristic; the adaptive digital program encoding module adaptively re-encodes the digital audio and video data based upon the configuration data to generate optimally suited Internet Protocol (IP) packets, adaptive re-encoding including generating an optimal number of predicted video frames from the digital video data, the optimal number being determined based upon the transmission path characteristic and the recipient device characteristic; and the digital electronic device delivers the optimally suited Internet protocol (IP) program packets to the recipient device via Internet the optimally suited IP program packets are formatted to optimally accommodate at least the transmission path characteristic and the recipient device characteristic.