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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 10, 1999
Petri Koskelainen, Tampere, FI;
Juha-Pekka Luoma, Tampere, FI;
Nokia Technology GmbH, Pforzheim, DE;
Abstract
Information is transmitted to a DVB network ( ) as an information stream according to the DVB standards, the information is sent from the information producer ( ) or transmitter to the operator ( ) of the DVB network ( ) for transmission to the DVB network ( ), the information producer ( ) transmits the information to a well-known multicast address in Internet ( ) as packets according to the multicast Internet protocol (IP), and an operator ( ) receives the multicast IP packets that contain the information from Internet ( ). In addition, the invention relates to a device ( ) for transmitting information to the DVB network ( ), which device ( ) has means ( ) for receiving the information to be transmitted, means ( ) for adding the received information to an information stream to be sent to the DVB network ( ) and means ( ) for sending the information stream to the DVB network ( ) and means ( ) for receiving packets according to the multicast Internet protocol.