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October 29, 2009
Vidyo Gets Patent for its VidyoRouter Architecture
By NatheshVidyo, a provider of personal telepresence, has announced that its VidyoRouter architecture has been granted a patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
The company claims its advanced video conferencing technology is capable of significantly improving network utilization efficiency and can offer reliable, low latency, multipoint conferencing over any IP network including the Internet.
The U.S. Patent, No. 7,593,032, entitled “System and Method for a Conference Server Architecture for Low Delay and Distributed Conferencing Applications,” covers the key intellectual property behind Vidyo’s (News - Alert) new video conferencing technology.
Vidyo claims that traditional video conferencing doesn’t take advantage of the obvious cost efficiencies available through Internet utilization largely because the highly centralized architectures are entirely at odds with the way the Internet works.
The company’s patented architecture enables all computationally intensive encoding to occur out at endpoints, leaving only video routing to be accomplished within the network itself. And Vidyo’s intelligent VidyoRouter ensures that this packet-switching is handled with optimal efficiency without either degrading the quality of the video or adding noticeably to latency.
Vidyo is of the opinion that traditional video conferencing just doesn’t work well because quality is inconsistent and delays are too long for highly interactive communications. Telepresence (News - Alert) remedied these problems by guaranteeing the network and eliminating the Multipoint Conferencing Bridge, but at very high cost.
This patent validates the technology behind the VidyoRouter architecture, which is based on the new H.264/SVC (Scalable Video Coding) standard, and maintains the lowest latency and most consistent quality of telepresence on the Internet and on any computer.
The reduction of cost of networks and MCUs as part of the HD multi-party videoconferencing experience will allow companies to explore the endless possibilities of video communications. Vidyo has claimed to have changed the economics, the scalability and the quality of the experience and their technology opens the door for large scale video conferencing deployments.
VidyoRouter ensures a video experience of continuous quality that is free of blurry images and broken pictures. The architecture provides rate matching, error localization and supports composited layouts just like a traditional MCU without the additional video encode and decode.
In a release, Vidyo CEO Ofer Shapiro (News - Alert) said the company’s solution has dramatically changed the business model from one that’s dependent on hardware, to a software platform. The VidyoRouter reduces by several orders of magnitude the amount of processing required in the network core.
Recently, Tempura launched videoconferencing system using Vidyo technology -- and Vidyo unveiled an affordable HD videoconferencing system for SMBs.
The company claims its advanced video conferencing technology is capable of significantly improving network utilization efficiency and can offer reliable, low latency, multipoint conferencing over any IP network including the Internet.
The U.S. Patent, No. 7,593,032, entitled “System and Method for a Conference Server Architecture for Low Delay and Distributed Conferencing Applications,” covers the key intellectual property behind Vidyo’s (News - Alert) new video conferencing technology.
Vidyo claims that traditional video conferencing doesn’t take advantage of the obvious cost efficiencies available through Internet utilization largely because the highly centralized architectures are entirely at odds with the way the Internet works.
The company’s patented architecture enables all computationally intensive encoding to occur out at endpoints, leaving only video routing to be accomplished within the network itself. And Vidyo’s intelligent VidyoRouter ensures that this packet-switching is handled with optimal efficiency without either degrading the quality of the video or adding noticeably to latency.
Vidyo is of the opinion that traditional video conferencing just doesn’t work well because quality is inconsistent and delays are too long for highly interactive communications. Telepresence (News - Alert) remedied these problems by guaranteeing the network and eliminating the Multipoint Conferencing Bridge, but at very high cost.
This patent validates the technology behind the VidyoRouter architecture, which is based on the new H.264/SVC (Scalable Video Coding) standard, and maintains the lowest latency and most consistent quality of telepresence on the Internet and on any computer.
The reduction of cost of networks and MCUs as part of the HD multi-party videoconferencing experience will allow companies to explore the endless possibilities of video communications. Vidyo has claimed to have changed the economics, the scalability and the quality of the experience and their technology opens the door for large scale video conferencing deployments.
VidyoRouter ensures a video experience of continuous quality that is free of blurry images and broken pictures. The architecture provides rate matching, error localization and supports composited layouts just like a traditional MCU without the additional video encode and decode.
In a release, Vidyo CEO Ofer Shapiro (News - Alert) said the company’s solution has dramatically changed the business model from one that’s dependent on hardware, to a software platform. The VidyoRouter reduces by several orders of magnitude the amount of processing required in the network core.
Recently, Tempura launched videoconferencing system using Vidyo technology -- and Vidyo unveiled an affordable HD videoconferencing system for SMBs.
Nathesh is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Nathesh's articles, please visit his columnist page.
Edited by Patrick Barnard
