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Data transmission

  • US 20050078683A1
  • Filed: 09/30/2004
  • Published: 04/14/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/08/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A data communication system for communicating one or more payload streamed data signals and an auxiliary data signal, the auxiliary data signal being organised as one or more data packets according to a data packet protocol, each packet having a respective packet destination address, the system comprising:

  • (i) at least two data handling nodes, a transmitting one of said data handling nodes being arranged to transmit data to a receiving one of said data handling nodes across a data connection link;

    (ii) a transmission data formatter associated with said transmitting node for formatting said data packets of said auxiliary data signal into a streamed data signal format and for multiplexing said payload streamed data signals and said formatted auxiliary data signal into a bitstream for transmission;

    (iii) a received data reformatter associated with said receiving node for demultiplexing said input streamed data signals and said formatted auxiliary data signal and for reformatting said auxiliary data signal into packets according to said data packet protocol.

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