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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2006
Eric John Diethorn, Long Valley, NJ (US);
Bengi Karacali-akyamac, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Mark John Karol, Fair Haven, NJ (US);
Anjur Sundaresan Krishnakumar, Rocky Hill, NJ (US);
Parameshwaran Krishnan, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Jean Meloche, Madison, NJ (US);
Eric John Diethorn, Long Valley, NJ (US);
Bengi Karacali-Akyamac, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Mark John Karol, Fair Haven, NJ (US);
Anjur Sundaresan Krishnakumar, Rocky Hill, NJ (US);
Parameshwaran Krishnan, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Jean Meloche, Madison, NJ (US);
Avaya Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus are disclosed that seek to improve the quality of service that is experienced during the transmission of a stream of packets across one or more paths. In particular, a transmitting node encodes a source stream of data (e.g., audio, video, etc.) into one or more sub-streams, and distributes those sub-streams onto multiple network transmission paths. In accordance with the illustrative embodiment of the present invention, the transmitting node evaluates the quality of service of a first network path that fails to provide a quality-of-service guarantee. When the quality of service of the first network path becomes unsatisfactory, the coding of one or more sub-streams that are being transmitted on a second network path is adjusted. In other words, the coding on a second channel is adjusted in response to the changing conditions on a first channel.