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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2007
Applicants:
Kinney Bacon, Lawrenceville, GA (US);
Maynard Hammond, Lawrenceville, GA (US);
Inventors:
Kinney Bacon, Lawrenceville, GA (US);
Maynard Hammond, Lawrenceville, GA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/167 (2006.01); H04L 9/00 (2006.01); H04L 9/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In a subscriber television system with a host terminal, the present invention allows the identification of the individual packets from two separate MPEG transport streams that have been multiplexed together for decoding by a single external conditional access or point-of-deployment (POD) module. The decoding of individual packets from two separate MPEG transport streams supports the use of multiple tuner host terminals for such functions as picture-in-picture (PIP) program viewing and the viewing of one program while recording a second program.