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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2003
Robert Robinett, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Regis Gratacap, Mill Valley, CA (US);
William Slattery, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Robert Robinett, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Regis Gratacap, Mill Valley, CA (US);
William Slattery, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Ericsson Television Inc., Duluth, GA (US);
Abstract
A method and system are provided for remultiplexing program bearing data. The remultiplexing method and system are applicable to MPEG-2 compliant transport streams carrying video programs. Remultiplexing functions may be distributed across a network. The remultiplexer can furthermore optimize the bandwidth of transport streams by replacing null transport packets with transport packet data to be inserted into the output transport stream. Remultiplexing and program specific information can be seamlessly dynamically varied without stopping, or introducing a discontinuity in, the flow-of outputted transport packets.