Thomson Licensing

Thomson Licensing S.a.

Bill Wesley Beyers, Jr

Raymond Scott Horton

Michael Scott Deiss

James Edwin Hailey

John William Chaney

Michael Wayne Johnson

Kevin Elliott Bridgewater

Kevin Elliot Bridgewater

A method of processing a packetized datastream that includes program information and ancillary information used to acquire desired program information packets. The method includes the steps of identifying a first data unit that includes channel information and identifying a plurality of second data units included with the first data unit. The plurality of second data units are of a fixed length, and thus, separated in the packetized datastream by a multiple of a fixed offset. The method further includes the step of acquiring desired second data units using the fixed offset and subsequently determining the available services associated with a program and acquiring the desired program packets from the datastream.

Apparatus and method for processing a program guide in a digital video system

A method and an apparatus for processing packetized signal having a plurality of channels carrying program information. The packetized signal also includes program guide information that includes channel identifier data. The program guide information comprises a sequence of data blocks including a segment map that includes information about the partitioning of the plurality of channels into segments and map block that includes information relating specific channels of the plurality of channels with respective channel identifier data.

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Carmel, IN, United States of America

Bill Wesley Beyers, Jr