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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2009
Applicants:
Francis Cheung, Del Mar, CA (US);
UT Nguyen, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventors:
Francis Cheung, Del Mar, CA (US);
Ut Nguyen, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04H 20/28 (2008.01); H04J 3/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method for substituting data packets into a data stream, is provided. In one embodiment, the data stream is a video data stream. The system includes packet buffers, a multiplexer, a packet substitution controller, a direct memory access (DMA) engine and a link list buffer controller. A method is also provided for substituting data packets - containing information of the same or different type—into a video data stream at variable rates using a selection mechanism driven by link list buffer control.