| 摘要 |
<p>A method and apparatus are provided for progressively transmitting time-based signals across an electronic network (204). A first computer (202) uses an encoding software application (208) to analyze and mathematically model the signal (206). The signal data is parsed according to when the information is actually required at the receiver to re-generate the signal and key values are identified. The key value data is sorted into data packets for transmission in temporal order, according to when it is needed, rather than according to when the data actually occurs in the signal. Any space that is not filled in earlier data packets is filled with data from later time slices in the signal. This data is stored in a buffer until needed to re-generate the signal. As a result, the data packets according to the present invention each contain approximately the same amount of data, but represent differing time slices. Data packet storage capacity is optimized. A second computer (212) receives the data packets and re-generates the original signal using a decoding software application (210).</p> |
