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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2007
Applicants:
Miska Hannuksela, Ruutana, FI;
Vinod Kumar Malamal Vadakital, Bangalore, IN;
Imed Bouazizi, Tampere, FI;
Inventors:
Miska Hannuksela, Ruutana, FI;
Vinod Kumar Malamal Vadakital, Bangalore, IN;
Imed Bouazizi, Tampere, FI;
Assignee:
Core Wireless Licensing S.A.R.L., Luxembourg, LU;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/24 (2006.01); H04J 3/12 (2006.01); H04N 7/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method for providing faster tuning into a chosen program in a time-sliced multicast and/or broadcast transmission environment. Multimedia data of the same source material but of different transmission and presentation characteristics are coded and compressed. According to various embodiments, simulcast streams of a program are time-sliced, placed maximally apart from each other in terms of transmission time, and sent over the channel.