Thomson Licensing

Thomson Licensing S.a.

Thomson Consumer Electronics Inc.

Kevin Elliot Bridgewater

Michael Scott Deiss

Raymond Scott Horton

Thomas Edward Horlander

James Edwin Hailey

John William Chaney

Terry Wayne Lockridge

Gregory George Tamer

Michael Wayne Johnson

Kevin Lloyd Grimes

Todd Goosman

Bill Wesley Beyers, Jr

An adaptive transport protocol decoder includes a source of a stream of packets, each including a payload, and having a first transport protocol, and a source of a stream of packets, each including a payload, and having a second transport protocol. A protocol decoder, coupled to the first and second packet stream sources, extracts the respective payloads from the packets from a selected one of the first and second packet stream sources.

Adaptive transport protocol

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.

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

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Kevin Elliot Bridgewater