MEDIA TRANSMISSION OVER A DATA NETWORK

摘要

A new approach towards transmitting media across a network is disclosed. In an embodiment, the sender prioritizes the data to be sent from a pool of candidate data, and sends it under some bandwidth constraint. The pool of candidate data reflects the present state of the media, and certain data may be discarded without being sent if it becomes irrelevant to the present state of the media. The receiver sends feedback regarding what data is received by it, which may be used for choosing candidate data, or for prioritizing it.