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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2007
Zhenyu Wu, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Zhengye Liu, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Alan Jay Stein, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);
Zhenyu Wu, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Zhengye Liu, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Alan Jay Stein, Princeton Junction, NJ (US);
Thomson Licensing, Issy les Moulineaux, FR;
Abstract
A method and apparatus are described including receiving a coded packet of content associated with a layer, receiving feedback information regarding channel conditions and applying hybrid automatic repeat request to deliver the packet based on said feedback information. The method and apparatus wherein applying hybrid automatic repeat request layer-wise further includes determining if a resource is exhausted, scheduling delivery of layered coded content packets for a layer, if the resource has not been exhausted, determining if all layered coded content packets for the layer have been transmitted, proceeding to the first determining step, if all layered coded content packets for a layer have not been transmitted, determining if an acknowledgement message has been received from a user device, determining if the resource is exhausted, if no acknowledgement has not been received and scheduling delivery of layered coded forward error correction packets, if the resource has not been exhausted.