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US 8,848,781 · App. 12/599,734 · Granted Sep 30, 2014

Apparatus and method for encoding and decoding signals

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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 8,848,781
App. No.
12/599,734
Granted
Sep 30, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

New capabilities will allow conventional broadcast transmission to be available to mobile devices. A method is described including the steps of receiving a packet of data having a data payload and a header, byte code encoding the data in the packet, and altering information in the header in response to the byte code encoding. An apparatus is described including an encoder receiving a packet of data and encoding the data using a byte code encoding process and a header modifier altering information in the header in response to the byte code encoding. A decoding apparatus is described including a packet identifier receiving a plurality of data packets, and identifying a data packet based on information in the header, a byte code decoder decoding the identified data packet using a byte code decoding process, and a Reed-Solomon decoder decoding at least the decoded identified data packet using a Reed-Solomon decoding process.

Claims (11)

1. A method comprising the steps of: receiving a packet of data, the packet having a data payload and a header, the header containing information identifying the packet as capable of being received by a first type of receiver; byte code encoding the data in the packet; altering information in the header in response to the byte code encoding, the altered information in the header identifying the packet as a packet that is not recognized by the first type of receiver but capable of being received by a second type of receiver; and combining the byte code encoded packet of data including the header with the altered information with a second packet of data including a header containing information identifying the second packet as capable of being received by the first type of receiver.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the step of altering includes altering a program identifier in the header.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the step of altering includes setting the program identifier to a value that is unused in a legacy program map table.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the step of altering includes setting the program identifier to a value for a valid mobile broadcast packet.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the step of byte code encoding uses a Galois Field generator matrix to supplement the data in the packet.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the packet in the step of receiving contains 184 bytes of data in the data payload and 3 bytes of data in the header.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the step of byte code encoding ( 1740 ) uses a GF Serial Concatenated Block Coding process.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the step of byte code encoding includes byte code encoding only the data payload portion of the packet.

9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising the step of Reed-Solomon encoding the byte code encoded data including the altered header.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the method is used in a television broadcast system.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first type of receiver is a legacy broadcast receiver and the second type of receiver is a mobile receiver.