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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 16, 1998
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A method is disclosed for communication between a plurality of stations. The method includes selecting a master station, which becomes responsible for building and broadcasting at least one service information table (such as the tables defined in MPEG or DVB), and communicates with the (N−1) to the other stations, known as slave stations, in a limited number of situations corresponding to modifications of the content of the tables and according to a specific table management, where the master station is always in one of three states that are either a waiting state, or a building state, or a transferring state, and specific communication rules for the slave stations and the master station.
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