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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2020
British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, London, GB;
BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS public limited company, London, GB;
Abstract
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for selecting an encoding specification for encoding audio and/or video data to be streamed between a user-device () and a remote device (), where the user-device is operable to communicate with the remote device via a digital subscriber line (DSL,) for a portion of a path () between the user-device and the remote device, the DSL portion () extending between a user-side DSL modem device () and a DSL aggregation transceiver device (). The method comprises: at the user-side DSL modem device () and/or the DSL aggregation transceiver device (), collecting performance data in respect of data communications on the DSL portion (); in dependence on the performance data collected, determining one or more data communication characteristics in respect of data communications on the DSL portion (); and selecting an encoding specification for encoding the data to be streamed, the selection being made in dependence on the determined data communication characteristics.