# US 2018/0027043 A1 · System and method for data stream fragmentation with scalability

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- Number: US 2018/0027043 A1
- Document ID: US20180027043A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 15/447,962
- Filed: 2017-03-02
- Published: 2018-01-25
- Earliest claimed: 2012-01-31
- Assignees: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
- Applicants: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
- Inventors: Jan van Doorn; Brian Field
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20180027043A1

## CPC

- H04L 65/70: Media network packetisation
- G06F 15/16: Combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an arithmetic unit, a program unit and a register, e.g. for a simultaneous processing of several programs {(coordinating program control therefor G06F9/52; in regulating and control system G05B)}
- H04N 21/234309: {by transcoding between formats or standards, e.g. from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 or from Quicktime to Realvideo (conversion of standards in analog television systems H04N7/01)}
- H04N 21/235: Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
- H04N 21/435: Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
- H04N 21/8455: {involving pointers to the content, e.g. pointers to the I-frames of the video stream}
- H04N 21/8456: {by decomposing the content in the time domain, e.g. in time segments}
- H04N 21/8586: {by using a URL (processing chained hypermedia data for information retrieval G06F16/94; information retrieval from the Internet by using URLs G06F16/955; URL in broadcast information H04H20/93; Web-based protocols H04L67/02)}
- H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M)
- G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)
- H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

## Abstract

A method of data conditioning is disclosed that in one aspect can include the steps of receiving a data stream, encoding a time code in the data stream to identify a portion of the data stream corresponding to a content fragment, and separating the identified portion of the data stream to define the content fragment, wherein the content fragment comprises the encoded time code.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A method of data conditioning comprising the steps of:
receiving a data stream;
encoding a time code in the data stream to identify a portion of the data stream corresponding to a content fragment; and
separating the identified portion of the data stream to define the content fragment, wherein the content fragment comprises the encoded time code.