Systems, Methods, and Media for Managing an Interactive Streaming Image System

A machine-accessible medium containing instructions effective, when executing in a data processing system, to cause said data processing system to perform operations comprising:

• receiving by the server from the client via a network client information;
• generating by the server a new image frame based on the received client information;
• comparing by the server the new image frame and a previous image frame;
• setting by the server a new compression level based on the comparison between the new image frame and the previous image frame;
• and
• encoding by the server the new image frame based on the new compression level and transmitting by the server the encoded new image frame and an indication of the new compression level to the client via the network.

An interactive streaming image system, the system comprising:

• a communications module, the communications module being adapted to receive client information from a client, the communications module being further adapted to transmit an encoded image frame to the client;
• a content generator in communication with the communications module, the content generator being adapted to generate a new image frame based on received client information;
• a content change detector in communication with the content generator, the content change detector being adapted to compare the new image frame with a previous image frame;
• a smoothing module in communication with the content change detector, the smoothing module being adapted to select a new compression level based on the comparison of the new image frame and the previous image frame;
• and
• a content encoder in communication with the smoothing module and the communications module, the content encoder being adapted to encode the new image frame based on the selected compression level.