H04N 21/63

Control signaling related to video distribution between client, server and network components

Official title: Control signaling {related to video distribution} between client, server and network components; Network processes for video distribution between server and clients {or between remote clients}, e.g. transmitting basic layer and enhancement layers over different transmission paths, setting up a peer-to-peer communication via Internet between remote STB's; Communication protocols; Addressing (real-time session protocols H04L65/1101; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104)

H04N21/63 (Control signaling related to video distribution between client, server and network components) appears on 12,456 US grants and 15,320 published applications in this corpus.

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