Mobile reception of digital video broadcasting—terrestrial services
US9281847B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Feb 26, 2010 |
| Grant date | Mar 8, 2016 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 15, 2032 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L2001/0093
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method of protecting data with application layer forward error correction in a communication system, wherein the communication system includes first devices with legacy receivers and second devices with FEC-enabled receivers, operation of the legacy receivers is not affected by the application layer forward error correction, and the method includes: determining a duration period; assembling packets of source data into source blocks corresponding to the duration period, each source block comprising a number of packets of source data; encoding the source blocks to generate encoded blocks, each encoded block comprising a number of packets of repair data; and transmitting the packets of repair data.
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