US 12,113,844 B2
Digital data processing
Richard W. Garmon, Mystic, CT (US)
Assigned to CARRIER CORPORATION, Palm Beach Gardens, FL (US)
Filed by Carrier Corporation, Palm Beach Gardens, FL (US)
Filed on Sep. 3, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/446,886.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/706,869, filed on Sep. 15, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0086212 A1, Mar. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 65/70 (2022.01); H04L 65/75 (2022.01); H04R 3/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04L 65/70 (2022.05) [H04L 65/765 (2022.05); H04R 3/00 (2013.01); H04R 2420/07 (2013.01); H04R 2499/11 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A security monitoring system, comprising:
a camera configured to transmit digital data in a first format, the digital data comprising an audio component and a video component;
a server side processing device in communication with the camera, the server side processing device configured to transcode the digital data, received from the camera, from the first format to a second format, the server side processing device configured to transmit the digital data in the second format; and
a user side media receiving device in communication with the server side processing device, the user side media receiving device configurable to switch between a mute mode and an un-mute mode, wherein
the user side media receiving device is configured to:
responsive to a user of the user side media receiving device switching the user side media receiving device to the mute mode, transmit a mute signal to the server side processing device, and wherein
the server side processing device is configured to stop transcoding and transmitting the audio component of the digital data to the user side media receiving device when the mute signal is received from the user side media receiving device and continue transcoding and transmitting the video component of the digital data to the user side media receiving device.