Multiplex communications – Communication techniques for information carried in plural... – Combining or distributing information via time channels
Reexamination Certificate
2008-04-21
2010-12-07
Jung, Min (Department: 2472)
Multiplex communications
Communication techniques for information carried in plural...
Combining or distributing information via time channels
C370S537000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07848364
ABSTRACT:
A system and method for adding auxiliary data DAto an output data stream from a statistical multiplexer is disclosed. An auxiliary multiplexer accepts a statistically multiplexed data stream, and substitutes auxiliary data packets for null data packets. The auxiliary multiplexer controls the number of null packets in the statistically multiplexed data stream by controlling the target bandwidth BTof the statistical multiplexer, or by modifying the statistical multiplexer equation to make the auxiliary data stream a participant in the negotiation process of allocating throughput among the data sources.
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Basse Hanno
Michener James A.
Newman Richard K.
Plummer Robert H.
Stranger Leon J.
Jung Min
The DIRECTV Group Inc.
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