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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 21, 1995
Alfonse Anthony Acampora, Staten Island, NY (US);
Richard Michael Bunting, Hamilton Square, NJ (US);
Steven Kennedy Evans, Holland, PA (US);
Paul Wallace Lyons, New Egypt, NJ (US);
Nicola John Fedele, Kingston, NJ (US);
Victor Vincent D'Alessandro, Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);
Thomson Multimedia, S.A., Boulogne, FR;
Abstract
A method is disclosed for optimizing the operation of a packet transport system generating a packet stream carrying a plurality of component signals, and includes the following steps. First the packet stream is partitioned into successive groups, each group containing a predetermined number of packet slots. A plurality of lists are maintained, one associated with each packet slot in a group. A packet stream is generated by placing data representing a component signal selected in response to entries in the list associated with that packet slot into the packet slot. The contents of the plurality of lists are updated based on a predetermined parameter.