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Opportunistic progressive encoding

  • US 10,470,236 B2
  • Filed: 12/14/2017
  • Issued: 11/05/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/13/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A link-aware data system for communicating data between multiple data terminals and an aggregator terminal over communication links with changing link conditions, the system comprising:

  • an aggregator terminal, adapted to receive data over a plurality of communication links and aggregate the data into an aggregate dataset; and

    a plurality of data terminals remote from the aggregator terminal, each communicatively coupled with the aggregator terminal via at least a common one of the plurality of communication links, and comprising;

    a receiver unit adapted to receive source data from a data source;

    a link awareness unit, executed by one or more processors, adapted to generate a link condition defining a condition of the at least one of the plurality of communication links;

    an adaptive coder unit, communicatively coupled with the receiver unit and the link awareness unit, and adapted to encode the source data into an encoded data signal as a function of the link condition; and

    a transceiver unit, communicatively coupled with the adaptive coder unit, and adapted to transmit the encoded data signal over the at least one of the plurality of communication links,wherein the aggregator terminal is adapted to receive data by receiving the encoded data signal over the at least one of the plurality of communication links.

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