US Patent Issued to Zixi on Oct. 27 for "Video transmission system and method" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,215, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Zixi LLC (Waltham, Mass.).

"Video transmission system and method" was invented by Uri Avni (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Oded Gants (Revava, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video transmission system and method is described for dynamically dropping video frames to avoid congestion, in order to maintain overall stream quality and to prevent visual artifacts, excessive buffering or lag. One or more frame dropping strategies may be implemented, and on a per Group Of Pictures (GOP) basis. These include: (i) removal of non-referenced frames; (ii) removal of frames between consecutive P-frames (iii) ...