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Packetized data formats for digital data storage media

  • US 5,838,873 A
  • Filed: 08/13/1996
  • Issued: 11/17/1998
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/31/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A storage medium having recorded thereon a plurality of packetized data programs in a data format including packet identifiers (PIDs) that identify individual packetized datastreams constituting a program, said data format facilitating the association and assembly of said packetized datastreams of said program by a decoder, independent of PID de-mapping data, wherein said PIDs include:

  • a base PID for identifying a first datastream;

    a second PID of predetermined offset value to said base PID for identifying a second datastream; and

    wherein corresponding packetized datastreams that constitute different programs are given the same PID.

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