Voice and video over IP provider Spirit DSP said it...
Voice and video over IP provider Spirit DSP said it received a patent on its IP-MR HD voice codec. The codec, designed for video soft phones and web videoconferencing products, is scalable and error-resilient, Spirit said Wednesday. The IP-MR codec…
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is already being implemented in massively multiplayer online games and IP-telephony and videoconferencing software, the company said. The patent Spirit received is for “multilayer, scalable, packet loss-resilient speech coding technology for IP-networks,” the company said in a news release, though it noted that the codec is patent-free and does not require other companies to pay patent royalties. The patent is the “next step in [IP-MR’s] professional recognition after its payload was adopted in 2011 by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF),” Spirit said. The IP-MR codec is able to adapt to changing bandwidth, providing the best possible quality of audio for current network conditions, the company said (http://xrl.us/bn4x9d).