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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 14, 2018
British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, London, GB;
Yousif Humeida, London, GB;
Ian Kegel, London, GB;
BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS public limited company, London, GB;
Abstract
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for selecting encoding specifications for encoding audio and/or video data to be streamed from a sender to a receiver via a network. Methods and apparatus for encoding data using a selected encoding specification, and for streaming data which has been encoded using a selected encoding specification from a sender to a receiver via a network are also disclosed. The selecting method comprises selecting an encoding specification (s) in dependence on performance measures () previously obtained using a plurality of different encoding specifications in respect of a monitored network when in each of a plurality of different network conditions (), respective network conditions being characterised by different combinations of data-transmission characteristics.