Cisco Technology, Inc.

John R Bean

Arturo A Rodriguez

Benjamin M Cook

Ken L Eppinett

Systems and methods that receive a video stream comprising a sequence of compressed pictures, the compressed pictures comprising a plurality of levels of picture importance including a first picture level and a second picture level, track the compressed pictures to ascertain which of the compressed pictures correspond to the first level, and responsive to ascertaining which of the compressed pictures correspond to the first level, tracking the compressed pictures to ascertain which of the compressed pictures correspond to the second level.

Tracking and determining pictures in successive interdependency levels

Inferential processing to ascertain plural levels of picture interdependencies

Systems and methods that receive a video stream comprising a sequence of plural compressed pictures, wherein the plural compressed pictures comprises a plurality of sets of compressed pictures, wherein each set in the plurality of sets has a respective picture interdependency characteristic, wherein the compressed pictures in the first set depend for decoding only on pictures from the first set.

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Madison, AL, United States of America

John R Bean