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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2004
Christopher W. Brown, Horsham, PA (US);
Arthur P. Jost, Mount Laurel, NJ (US);
Robert Edward Mack, Collegeville, PA (US);
Christopher W. Brown, Horsham, PA (US);
Arthur P. Jost, Mount Laurel, NJ (US);
Robert Edward Mack, Collegeville, PA (US);
General Instrument Corporation, Horsham, PA (US);
Abstract
A method for controlling flow of a video content signal through a communications system, such as a video on-demand system creates a unique message for each individual video content signal and attaches the unique message to each individual video content signal prior to transmitting the video content signal through the communications system to a designed end user system. In one exemplary embodiment, the unique message comprises an in-band signaling message, such as a message inserted in a program map table in an MPEG packetized signal.