Receive path quality information
AssigneeNXP B.V.
InventorsHendrik Jan Kelder, Christian Kessel
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A method and apparatus are provided. The apparatus comprises an input for receiving a plurality of data streams carrying misaligned common content. The apparatus further comprises a plurality of buffers configured to delay one or more of the data streams to align the common content, each buffer for storing data blocks of a respective one of the plurality of data streams. The apparatus comprises an output for selecting a data block from the plurality of buffers to form a next data block in an output packet stream comprising the common content. Each data block is stored in a respective buffer along with quality information corresponding to said data block and selecting a data block from the plurality of buffers is carried out in dependence on the quality information.
Claims15
An apparatus comprising:
- an input for receiving a plurality of data streams carrying misaligned common content;
- a plurality of buffers configured to delay one or more of the data streams to align the common content, each buffer for storing data blocks of a respective one of the plurality of data streams;
- and
- an output for selecting a data block from the plurality of buffers to form a next data block in an output packet stream comprising the common content;
- wherein each data block is stored in a respective buffer along with quality information corresponding to said data block and selecting a data block from the plurality of buffers is carried out in dependence on the quality information.
A method comprising:
- receiving a plurality of data streams carrying misaligned common content;
- delaying one or more of the data streams to align the common content by storing the plurality of data streams in a plurality of buffers, each buffer storing data blocks of a respective one of the plurality of data streams;
- and
- forming an output packet stream comprising the common content by selecting a data block from the plurality of buffers to form a next data block in the output packet stream;
- wherein the step of each buffer storing data blocks of a respective one of the plurality of data streams further comprises storing quality information corresponding to each data block and selecting a data block from the plurality of buffers is carried out in dependence on the corresponding quality information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.