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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2006
Gary Fujen Cheng, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Charles Shen, Fremont, CA (US);
Jack C. Cham, San Leandro, CA (US);
Ping LI, Fremont, CA (US);
Gary Fujen Cheng, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Charles Shen, Fremont, CA (US);
Jack C. Cham, San Leandro, CA (US);
Ping Li, Fremont, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for reducing channel change startup delays for multicast digital video streams are described. Packets of a multicast digital video transport stream having a plurality of normal Group of Pictures are received. Further, a channel change request is received and a speed-up Group of Pictures is inserted in the stream in response to the channel change request. In one embodiment, video stream specific information is also inserted in the stream. The packets are processed and transmitted.