Droplet’s Interactive Video Service Platform

Droplet’s IVSP includes both client and server software applications that dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of high-quality video capture and playback, video processing, and network-adaptive video transmission. These innovations enable, for the first time, high-quality and low-bandwidth video services within the limited processing capabilities and bandwidth of mobile devices and wireless networks.

Droplet’s all-software IVSP client application integrates state-of-the-art adaptive video and voice codec technologies, together with industry-standard Internet Protocol (IP) network signaling, transport, and control protocols. The unified IVSP client architecture enables high-quality, low-bandwidth, real-time 2-way and multi-party video on the widest range of 2.5G, 3G, and 4G devices, including mobile phones, netbooks, PCs, and other mobile-enabled Internet devices.

Droplet’s IVSP server software applications support a variety of premium video service extensions, including:

• Live one-to-many video broadcast services
• Automated video editing and multimedia mashups
• Non-real-time video sharing, messaging, and streaming

Live 2.5G, 3G, and 4G network interoperability testing has showcased the ability to deploy these services using Droplet’s IVSP server software on standard IMS application/media servers, standard utility server hardware, or cloud computing infrastructure, with significantly lower cost, faster time-to-market, and higher performance than competing video platforms that require additional specialized video hardware.

Droplet’s IVSP client and server applications also allow service providers to further leverage existing investments in infrastructure to support fixed/mobile convergence, unified communications, location-based services, and presence-based services that can broaden the reach, appeal, and “stickiness” of mobile video.