METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AN INFORMATION STREAM, CORRESPONDING TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, TRANSMITTER AND COMPUTER PRODUCT

• Main Authors: QUAGLIA, MAURO, FRANCESCHINI, GUIDO, VARESIO, ANDREA
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 20.12.2006
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

An information stream with video (V), audio (A) and data (D) components assembled in access units (Vtn, Atn, Dtn) with associated respective meta-information is transmitted on a set of communication channels (Cj), such as different lines of a mobile communication network. The stream is arranged in packets each of which contains at least a segment of access unit and a header (H). The header (H) in question comprises a first set of fields (HS), which represents the meta-information associated to the related access unit(s), and a second set of fields (HG), comprising general validity fields, independent from the information stream. Typically, these are fields that convey the following information: number (PN) of the packet in the order of transmission, identifier (CH) of the channel that carries a particular stream, length (L) of the data packet as well as check, for instance of the checksum type (CK). Preferably, the latter field is related to all the data of the header (H), except the check field itself.