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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 13, 1997
Paul Augustine Voois, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Barry Dean Andrews, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Truman Joe, San Jose, CA (US);
Philip Stanley Bednarz, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
8 x 8, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A multimedia communication system processes and multiplexes different types of data, including data from an adaptive data rate data source and a nonadaptive data rate data source, to substantially increase data throughput over a communication channel. The system includes: a first data source, responsive to a control signal, including a video image processor constructed to capture images and to present the images as a first type of data at a rate determined as a function of the control signal; at least one additional data source generating at least one additional data signal; a data signal processor that determines an available bandwidth factor for the communication channel, generates the control signal in response to this factor, collects the first type of data at a rate that varies in response to the available channel bandwidth of the modem, and collects the at least one additional type of data at at least one established rate. A communication channel modem transmits the data to a receiving terminal as the data is presented by the data signal processor.