Media stream splicer

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2004-02-27

2008-09-30

Nguyen, Chau (Department: 2619)

Multiplex communications

Communication techniques for information carried in plural...

Combining or distributing information via frequency channels

C725S086000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07430222

ABSTRACT:
An implementation is described herein, which facilitates a fast channel change by receiving and decoding a unicast acquisition media stream that corresponds to a soon-to-be-requested target multicast media stream. It does this before requesting the target multicast media stream of the new channel. Once the transmission of the unicast stream is caught up with the multicast stream, this implementation splices from the unicast acquisition stream to the target multicast media stream.

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