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Apparatus and method for multi-service transport multiplexing

US6421359B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateOct 5, 2000
Grant dateJul 16, 2002
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Expiry dateOct 5, 2020

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N21/23655
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An elementary two-stream transport multiplexer provides for the addition of services contained in a transport stream to a pre-existing transport stream. The elementary multiplexer includes a pair of transport demultiplexers, a processor and a transport remultiplexer. The demultiplexers demultiplex a pair of input transport streams to their constituent service components and service control information tables. The service control information tables are routed to the processor which combines and reconfigures the information within the tables to provide a single set of output service control information tables. The demultiplexers filter the service components based on the output service control tables. The transport remultiplexer multiplexes the output tables with the filtered streams to provide an output transport stream.

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