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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 02, 1998
David Robert Weston, Oxfordshire, GB;
Andrew James Copper, Boulder, CO (US);
Andrew Johnson, Surrey, GB;
Anthony Stephen Walton, Surrey, GB;
David Alan Woodfield, Walsall, GB;
Two Way TV Limited, London, GB;
Abstract
A method of inputting one or more items of information to a data destination ( ). The method comprises generating the item(s) of information at one or more data sources ( ); and for each item of information transmitting the item of information to the data destination in a data packet; calculating a time stamp value in accordance with the time delay between generating the item of information and transmitting the data packet; encoding the time stamp value in the data packet; decoding the data packet at the data destination to retrieve the time stamp value; and calculating the time delay associated with the data packet in accordance with the retrieved time stamp value.