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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2007
Marc A. C. Todd, Foxboro, MA (US);
Richard T. Holleran, Attleboro, MA (US);
James T. Welch, Mashpee, MA (US);
Marc A. C. Todd, Foxboro, MA (US);
Richard T. Holleran, Attleboro, MA (US);
James T. Welch, Mashpee, MA (US);
IneoQuest Technologies, Inc., Mansfield, MA (US);
Abstract
A system and method is provided for reducing the bandwidth of MPEG transport streams during transmission over a packet-switched network. The system and method identifies characteristics of a plurality of media fragments disposed within each of a plurality of packets of a transport stream, and aggregates the characteristics into a summary value for each of the packets. The summary value is correlated to a priority weighting identifiable by a network element. Each of the packets is marked with the priority weighting, so that the packets may be selectively dropped by a network element in accordance with their priority weightings to reduce the bandwidth of the transport stream.