Dual Wireless Network Architecture for Video Streaming Priority
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Solution Overview
Problem
Wireless bridge circuits have limited data bandwidth, leading to potential delays or interruptions in high-priority data transmission, such as video content, when multiple types of data are sent over the same network, which can negatively impact the quality of video streaming and user experience.
Innovation Solution
Implementing two separate wireless networks with differing bandwidth priorities, where high-priority data (like video data) is transmitted over one network and lower-priority data (like text messages or software updates) over another, ensuring that high-priority data is not delayed or interrupted by lower-priority data, even when bandwidth is maximized.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If multiple types of data are sent over the same wireless network, then the network utilization is improved, but the quality of high-priority data transmission deteriorates due to bandwidth sharing
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the wireless network into two separate networks: a first wireless network for high-priority data (video content) and a second wireless network for lower-priority data (text messages, software updates). This segmentation allows each network to handle specific data types with guaranteed bandwidth, preventing high-priority video data from being delayed or interrupted by lower-priority traffic while still utilizing the full wireless bridge circuit bandwidth across both networks.
2Reliability
If bandwidth is allocated to ensure high-priority data transmission, then video quality is maintained, but the total data throughput of the wireless bridge circuit is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from a single-dimensional bandwidth allocation problem to a two-dimensional solution by creating separate wireless networks (first and second networks) with different priority levels. This dimensional change allows the system to guarantee bandwidth for high-priority video data on the first network while simultaneously allocating remaining bandwidth to lower-priority data on the second network, thereby maintaining both video quality and maximizing total throughput.
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AI summary
Methods of transmitting data between television receivers and a related system are described. In one method, a first television receiver (22a) provides media content wirelessly to a second television receiver (22b). The first television receiver transmits video data to the second television receiver on a first wireless network. The television receiver transmits other kinds of data to the second television receiver on a second wireless network.