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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2011
Sarat Khilnani, Cupertino, CA (US);
Duanpei Wu, San Jose, CA (US);
Shih-cheng Stan Yang, Saratoga, CA (US);
Sarat Khilnani, Cupertino, CA (US);
Duanpei Wu, San Jose, CA (US);
Shih-cheng Stan Yang, Saratoga, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and methods are provided for shaping a transmit bit-rate of a multimedia stream to adapt to the bandwidth of network path on which the multimedia stream is sent between a source and destination. A condition indicative of a bandwidth of the network path is monitored, and at an intermediate point on the network path between the source and destination, the transmit bit-rate of the multimedia stream is adjusted to adapt to the condition indicative of the bandwidth of the path.