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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.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2014

Filed:

Aug. 31, 2009
Applicants:

Wai-tian Tan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Andrew J. Patti, Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Wai-Tian Tan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Andrew J. Patti, Cupertino, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/24 (2011.01); H04N 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

According to one embodiment, video data from a video transmitter () is received () at a network buffer (). Information that pertains to a network buffer drain rate () of the network buffer (q) is monitored (). The network buffer drain rate () is a rate that the video data is removed from the network buffer (). The network buffer drain rate () is estimated () based on the monitored information. A transmission rate () that the video transmitter () transmits future video data is adjusted () to not exceed an allowed transmission rate (ATR) that is calculated based on the estimation of the network buffer drain rate ().


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