Patent ID: 9264675
Filing Date: 2016-02-16
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a receive processing device of a communications terminal, a multiplexed data stream comprising a plurality of codeblocks multiplexed onto the multiplexed data stream and organized within one or more respective superframes within the data stream, wherein the codeblocks respectively reflect data symbols of multiple respective encoded and modulated source data streams of multiple respective data sources; decoding a one codeblock of the plurality of codeblocks of the multiplexed datastream, wherein each codeblock includes a flag that indicates whether the codeblock contains a timeplan, and wherein the timeplan includes a respective sequence number identifying a position of each of the codeblocks within the respective superframe and includes a respective class indicator identifying a communication device class that is designated to decode the respective codeblock; and determining whether the flag of the one codeblock indicates that the one codeblock contains the timeplan; and when it is determined that the one codeblock contains the timeplan, the method further comprises acquiring the timeplan.