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Digital television conditional access methods and apparatus with multiple data transport mechanism

  • US 7,216,358 B1
  • Filed: 11/19/1999
  • Issued: 05/08/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/19/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A multiple transport method for enabling a conditional access module to handle any of a plurality of transport stream formats, the multiple transport method comprising:

  • qualifying received data bytes according to their positions and values within a data packet; and

    attaching a multi-bit tag to each received data byte, the tag containing information required for further processing of the byte.

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