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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 1997
Filed:
Sep. 15, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Giovanni Caire, Turin, IT;
Giampaolo Michieletto, Robegano, IT;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370535 ; 370536 ; 370542 ; 370229 ; 395877 ; 348419 ;
Abstract
The method allows performing the multiplexing of audio-visual streams, coded according to standard MPEG1, to be sent to remote equipment where demultiplexing and decoding occur. The method takes into account the trend of the occupancy of the input buffers of the remote decoders in order to avoid possible underflow or overflow conditions. For this purpose a multiplexed stream is constructed, composed of packets of variable sizes, by choosing the streams on the basis of the urgency to receive data that the demultiplexing buffers BDi have in order not to become empty.