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Streaming media using erasable packets within internet queues

  • US 10,291,680 B2
  • Filed: 12/21/2016
  • Issued: 05/14/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A router circuit for handling incoming packets of streaming media including packets that are encoded as collections of progressively priority-ranked segments and packets that are encoded without said progressively priority-ranked segmentation, comprising:

  • a processor configured to receives quality of service data representing condition of network congestion; and

    said processor programmed to test an incoming packet in the streaming media to determine whether it is encoded as collections of progressively priority-ranked segments;

    said processor further programmed to reduce network congestion when the received quality of service data indicates presence of network congestion by;

    (a) selectively and progressively erasing segments within the incoming packet beginning with a lowest-ranked priority segment if the incoming packet is determined to be encoded as collections of progressively priority-ranked segments; and

    (b) dropping the entire incoming packet if the incoming packet is determined not to be encoded as collections of progressively priority-ranked segments.

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