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

Claim 8:
9. A reception device for receiving packets in a communication system, the reception device comprising:
a receiver; and
at least one processor coupled to the receiver, wherein the at least one processor is configured to:
receive 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,
recover the drop information from the repair data, and
recover 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.