Technology is provided for dynamically adjusting the delivery of content by switching
streams during delivery in order to adapt to bandwidth information. A server (or set of …

Internet L15 comprises a master module con? gured to assign an encoding job to one of a
plurality of host computing modules in response to an encoding job completion bid. A …

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(60) Provisional application No. 60/566,831,? led on Apr.(57) ABSTRACT 30, 2004- An
apparatus for adaptive-rate shifting of streaming content includes an agent controller module …

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Abstract Systems and methods for error resilient transmission and for random access in
video communication systems are provided. The video communication systems are based …

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When a client requests content from a Content Delivery Network (or other system), a first
portion of the content is requested from a source capable of providing high performance to …

(57) ABSTRACT 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 …

In the scalable video coding in connection with motion compensation both in a base layer
and in an enhancement layer, a prediction of the motion data of the enhancement layer is …