Patent ID: 11876723
Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 4:
5. A method for receiving packets by a reception device in a communication system, the method comprising:
receiving source packets and repair packets including one or more repair symbols and repair data for protecting drop information indicating at least one source packet dropped by a transmission device, from the transmission device;
recovering the drop information from the repair data; and
recovering the at least one source packet dropped by the transmission device based on the drop information and the one or more repair symbols,
wherein each of the received source packets and the at least one packet dropped by the transmission device includes data related to at least one asset,
wherein a source packet of the source packets comprises a packet header including a packet identifier for distinguishing an asset related to the source packet from another asset, and
wherein each of the at least one asset is a multimedia data entity associated with a unique identifier.