Patent attributes
A video system includes one or more media sources and a media server configured to communicate with a video viewing device through a network. The media server includes memory and a processor configured to perform a plurality of operations. The operations include receiving a video stream from the one or more media sources, where the video stream includes one or more sequences of a key frame followed by one or more secondary frames. The operations also include determining whether throttling is enabled for the video stream, dropping the one or more secondary frames with transmission of the key frame to the video viewing device based on determining that throttling is enabled, and transmitting the key frame and the one or more secondary frames to the video viewing device based on determining that throttling is disabled.
