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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2007
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2005
John William Chaney, Gilroy, CA (US);
Bill Wesley Beyers, Jr., Carmel, IN (US);
Michael Wayne Johnson, Indianapolis, IN (US);
James Edwin Hailey, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Kevin Elliott Bridgewater, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Michael Scott Deiss, Zionsville, IN (US);
Raymond Scott Horton, McKinney, TX (US);
John William Chaney, Gilroy, CA (US);
Bill Wesley Beyers, Jr., Carmel, IN (US);
Michael Wayne Johnson, Indianapolis, IN (US);
James Edwin Hailey, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Kevin Elliott Bridgewater, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Michael Scott Deiss, Zionsville, IN (US);
Raymond Scott Horton, McKinney, TX (US);
Thomson Licensing, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
A method of processing a packetized datastream that includes program information and ancillary information used to acquire desired program information packets. The method includes the steps of identifying a first data unit that includes channel information and identifying a plurality of second data units included with the first data unit. The plurality of second data units are of a fixed length, and thus, separated in the packetized datastream by a multiple of a fixed offset. The method further includes the step of acquiring desired second data units using the fixed offset and subsequently determining the available services associated with a program and acquiring the desired program packets from the datastream.