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Content rate selection for media servers with proxy-feedback-controlled frame transmission

  • US 8,190,750 B2
  • Filed: 08/19/2008
  • Issued: 05/29/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for dynamically setting a content rate of a multimedia session for a client in a network, the method comprising:

  • receiving, at a proxy server, a channel condition feedback message from a network controller, the channel condition feedback message including current channel condition information for the network;

    determining, at the proxy server, whether a receiver report message has been received from the client since a most recent previous channel condition feedback message, the receiver report message including real-time transport protocol (RTP) sequence numbers corresponding to frames awaiting playout at the client; and

    sending, from the proxy server to a media server, one of an extended feedback report message and a short feedback report message based on the determining step, the short feedback report message including at least a maximum transmission rate parameter for the multimedia session, the extended feedback report message including at least a first message and a second message, the second message including at least information contained in the receiver report message, the first message including at least the maximum transmission rate parameter for the multimedia session.

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