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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2019

Filed:

Mar. 29, 2017
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Amir Asif, Toronto, CA;

Alicia E. Chin, Markham, CA;

Yonggang Hu, Toronto, CA;

Zhenhua Hu, Toronto, CA;

Vida Movahedi, Richmond Hill, CA;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04N 21/236 (2011.01); H04N 21/2365 (2011.01); H04N 21/2343 (2011.01); H04N 21/24 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/23605 (2013.01); H04N 21/23439 (2013.01); H04N 21/23655 (2013.01); H04N 21/234309 (2013.01); H04N 21/234363 (2013.01); H04N 21/2407 (2013.01);
Abstract

A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes: splitting a video stream into a plurality of sub-streams, encoding each of the sub-streams in parallel, and transmitting a packet to a receiver, wherein the packet includes a number of the encoded sub-streams. Each of the sub-streams individually provide a unique version of the video stream having a lower video quality, while merging more than one of the sub-streams provides a merged version of the video stream having a relatively higher video quality. Moreover, the number of the encoded sub-streams included in the packet transmitted to the receiver corresponds to a quality of service associated with the receiver. Other systems, methods, and computer program products are described in additional embodiments.


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