| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20080211901 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SCALABLE AND LOW-DELAY VIDEOCONFERENCING USING SCALABLE VIDEO CODING - Scalable video codecs are provided for use in videoconferencing systems and applications hosted on heterogeneous endpoints/receivers and network environments. The scalable video codecs provide a coded representation of a source video signal at multiple temporal, quality, and spatial resolutions. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080239062 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTIPOINT CONFERENCING WITH SCALABLE VIDEO CODING SERVERS AND MULTICAST - A multicast scalable video communication server (MSVCS) is disposed in a multi-endpoint video conferencing system having multicast capabilities and in which audiovisual signals are scalably coded. The MVCVS additionally has unicast links to endpoints. The MSVCS caches audiovisual signal data received from endpoints over multicast communication channels, and retransmits the data over either unicast or multicast communication channels to an endpoint that requests the cached data. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20090116562 | Systems And Methods For Signaling And Performing Temporal Level Switching In Scalable Video Coding - Media communication systems and methods for media encoded using scalable coding with temporal scalability are provided. Transmitting endpoints include switching information in their transmitted media to indicate if temporal level switching at a decoder can occur at any frame of the transmitted encoded media. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090295905 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A CONFERENCE SERVER ARCHITECTURE FOR LOW DELAY AND DISTRIBUTED CONFERENCING APPLICATIONS - Systems and methods for conducting a multi-endpoint video signal conference are provided. Conferencing endpoints are linked by pairs of a reliable and a less reliable communication channel. Conference video signals are scaleable coded in base layer and enhancement layers format. Video signal base layers, which correspond to a minimum picture quality, are communicated over reliable channels. The video signal enhancements layers may be communicated over the less reliable channels. A conference server mediates the switching of video layer information from transmitting endpoints to receiving endpoints without any intermediate coding or re-coding operations. The video conference can be integrated with an audio conference using either scalable coded audio signals or non-scaleable coded audio signals. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20100002069 | System And Method For Improved View Layout Management In Scalable Video And Audio Communication Systems - A system and method for transmitting a plurality of video signals scalably coded into layers including a base layer and one or more enhancement layers and associated audio signals, if any, over a communication network for presentation to one or more end users. A layout to display the plurality of video signals is determined based on a set of criteria and only the data of the video signal layers that are necessary for displaying the video signals in the determined layout, and any associated audio signals, is selectively transmitted over the communication network. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100067581 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SCALABLE VIDEO CODING USING TELESCOPIC MODE FLAGS - Systems and methods for scalable video coding using special inter-layer prediction modes (called telescopic modes) are provided. These modes facilitate accelerated operation of encoders with improved coding efficiency. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100215053 | System and Method for the Control of the Transmission Rate in Packet-Based Digital Communications - A transmission bit rate control mechanism for a packet-based communication system in which sender transmission bit rates can vary over time is provided. The transmission bit rate mechanism includes a receiver recording mechanism, which receives transmission time information, computes and records statistical parameters of packets received from a sender; and a receiver processing mechanism, which selectively computes a new transmission bit rate using the recorded statistical parameters, and communicates a new transmission bit rate to the sender. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20110222545 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOVERING THE DECODING ORDER OF LAYERED MEDIA IN PACKET-BASED COMMUNICATION - The present invention relates to the packet-based transmission of media that are coded using a layered representation. In particular, it relates to mechanisms for recovering the decoding order of the media packets when such media is transmitted with arbitrary ordering over one or more packet streams. | 09-15-2011 |