Patent ID: 9246692
Filing Date: 2016-01-26
CPC Classification: H04L,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method for synchronizing video in a system including a host central processing unit (“CPU”) and a plurality of transcoder instances, the method comprising: receiving, by two or more transcoder instances in the plurality of transcoder instances, a synchronization Internet Protocol (“IP”) packet in a multicast stream of IP packets from the host CPU, wherein the synchronization IP packet comprises at least one distinctive code word to identify the synchronization IP packet among the IP packets of the multicast stream; detecting, by the two or more transcoder instances in the plurality of transcoder instances, the synchronization IP packet at the same point in the multicast stream, the point in the multicast stream detected by the two or more transcoder instances indicating a starting point to transcode the multicast stream of IP packets simultaneously by the two or more transcoder instances; and transcoding, by the two or more transcoder instances in the plurality of transcoder instances, the multicast stream of IP packets that begins from the indicated starting point responsive to detecting the synchronization IP packet.