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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 11, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ran Cohen, Haifa, IL;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/00 ; H04L 1/226 ; H04J 3/14 ; H04J 1/16 ; H04J 2/06 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/00 ; H04L 1/226 ; H04J 3/14 ; H04J 1/16 ; H04J 2/06 ;
Abstract
A method of providing audio packets received from a network to a speaker which plays the packets. The method includes accumulating the received audio packets in a buffer having a variable size, calculating a parameter indicative of a feature of data flow in the network, adjusting the size of the buffer responsive to the parameter, and providing the speaker with audio packets from the buffer.