Patent ID: 9307243
Filing Date: 2016-04-05
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method for transporting an 8B/10B coded video stream from a transmitter across a 64B/66B coded link to a receiver, the method comprising: decoding the 8B/10B coded video stream and thereby obtaining a stream of control bytes and data bytes corresponding to the 8B/10B coded video stream; when a mix of control and data bytes in the stream corresponds to a predefined data block type from among a number of predefined data block types corresponding to different mixes of control and data bytes, using 64B/66B data blocks to forward the stream towards the receiver, and when the mix of control and data bytes in the stream does not correspond to one of the predefined data block types, using 64B/66B control blocks to forward the stream towards the receiver; and for each 64B/66B control block sent from the transmitter to the receiver, using one or more 4B/8B information bytes in the 64B/66B control block to: