Systems and methods for applying a variable encoding/decoding scheme in a communication network
View Patent ↗Various systems, devices and methods for providing variable coder/decoder mechanisms are disclosed. As one example, a coder/decoder device including a plurality of coder/decoder mechanisms, a coder/decoder selection engine, and a computer readable medium is disclosed. The computer readable medium includes a network statistic. The coder/decoder selection engine is operable to select at least one of the plurality of coder/decoder mechanisms based at least in part on the network statistic. Further, the coder/decoder selection engine is operable to offer the at least one of the plurality of coder/decoder mechanisms.
1. A method for selecting a network coder/decoder mechanism, the method comprising:
providing a plurality of coder/decoder mechanisms;
analyzing network performance;
based at least in part on the network performance, offering at least two of the plurality of coder/decoder mechanisms, wherein offering includes indicating a preference for one or more of the offered coder/decoder mechanisms; and
receiving an acceptance of the offer,
wherein the acceptance of the offer identifies a selected one of the offered coder/decoder mechanisms, the method further comprising:
determining failure of the selected coder/decoder mechanism;
based on the determining failure of the selected coder/decoder, modifying the offered coder/decoder mechanisms; and
re-offering the modified coder/decoder mechanisms.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the analyzing network performance is done from the perspective of an end point.
3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the analyzing the network performance is done between two endpoints and includes performing a protocol selected from a group consisting of: a ping, a trace route, RTCP, and RTCP XR.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein offering includes providing an ordered list of coder/decoder mechanisms.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the analyzing network performance is done from a perspective of a first end point, wherein the method further comprises:
analyzing network performance from a perspective of a second endpoint.
6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the identification of the selected coder/decoder mechanism from the offered coder/decoder mechanisms is based at least in part on the analyzing network performance from the perspective of the second endpoint.
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein each of the offered coder/decoder mechanisms includes a characteristic definition.
8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the characteristic definition includes an element selected from a group consisting of:
a bandwidth information,
a packet loss information,
a jitter information, and
a latency information.
9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the acceptance of the offer includes initiating communication between endpoints consistent with at least one of the offered coder/decoder mechanisms.
10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the offer is provided by a first end point, and wherein the acceptance is provided by a second end point.
11. A coder/decoder system, the system comprising:
an instruction execution unit;
a computer readable medium encoded with computer executable instructions, wherein the computer readable medium encodes:
a network statistic; and
instructions executable by the instruction execution unit, wherein the instructions are executable to:
implement a plurality of coder/decoder mechanisms;
based at least in part on the network statistic, offer at least two of the plurality of coder/decoder mechanisms, wherein the offer indicates a preference for one or more of the offered coder/decoder mechanisms; and
receive an acceptance of the offer,
wherein the acceptance of the offer identifies a selected one of the offered coder/decoder mechanisms the instructions further operable to:
determine failure of the selected coder/decoder mechanism;
based on the determined failure of the selected coder/decoder, modify the offered coder/decoder mechanisms; and
re-offer the modified coder/decoder mechanisms.
12. The coder/decoder system of claim 11 , wherein the instructions executable by the instruction execution unit are further executable to:
analyze a network; and
based at least in part on the network analysis, update the network statistic.
13. The system of claim 12 , wherein the analyzing network functionality is done from the perspective of an end point.
14. The coder/decoder system of claim 11 , wherein the instructions executable by the instruction execution unit are further executable to:
receive the network statistic.
15. The system of claim 11 , wherein the indication of the preference for one or more of the offered coder/decoder mechanisms is based at least in part on analyzing network functionality from the perspective of an end point.
16. The system of claim 11 , wherein each of the offered coder/decoder mechanisms includes a characteristic definition.
17. The system of claim 16 , wherein the characteristic definition includes an element selected from a group consisting of:
a bandwidth information,
a packet loss information,
a jitter information, and
a latency information.
18. A coder/decoder device, the device comprising:
a plurality of coder/decoder mechanisms;
a computer readable medium encoded with computer executable instructions and a network statistic; and
a coder/decoder selection engine, wherein the coder/decoder selection engine is operable to select at least two of the plurality of coder/decoder mechanisms based at least in part on the network statistic, and wherein the coder/decoder selection engine is operable to offer the selected coder/decoder mechanisms and wherein the offer indicates a preference for one or more of the offered coder/decoder mechanisms,
wherein upon an acceptance of the offer identifies a selected one of the offered coder/decoder mechanisms, and the coder/decoder selection engine is further operable to:
determine failure of the selected coder/decoder mechanism;
based on the determined failure of the selected coder/decoder, modify the offered coder/decoder mechanisms; and
re-offer the modified coder/decoder mechanisms.
19. The coder/decoder device of claim 18 , wherein the device further comprises:
a network analysis engine, wherein the network analysis engine is operable to analyze a network and to provide the network statistic.
20. The coder/decoder device of claim 19 , wherein the network analysis engine is operable to analyze the network from the perspective of a first end point, and wherein the offer is provided to a second end point.
21. The coder/decoder device of claim 18 , wherein the coder/decoder selection engine is further operable to order the selected coder/decoder mechanisms.
22. The method of claim 1 , further comprising ranking the plurality of coder/decoder mechanisms according to preference.
23. The method of claim 1 , wherein modifying the offered coder/decoder mechanisms comprises removing the failed coder/decoder mechanism from the offered coder/decoder mechanisms.
24. The method of claim 1 , wherein modifying the offered coder/decoder mechanisms comprises modifying the preference for one or more of the offered coder/decoder mechanisms.
25. The method of claim 1 , wherein the indicated preference is used by an endpoint that receives the offer to select from among the offered coder/decoder mechanisms.
26. The method of claim 1 , wherein analyzing network performance comprises gathering historical information related to past communications.