Patent ID: 9722850
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04N

Claim:
1. A system for delivering a plurality of digitally encoded video program streams as a composite video traffic stream flow over multiple channels of a distribution communication network that connects equipment at a central location to user equipment at user locations, comprising: an IP filter that filters IP packets, wherein the IP packets include digitally encoded video program packets and non-video data packets; means for multiplexing a plurality of digitally encoded video program packets corresponding to a plurality of single program transport streams into a plurality of multiplexed program streams, the means for multiplexing coupled to the IP filter; means for transmitting the plurality of multiplexed program streams over a plurality of bonded channels as a composite stream; and one or more variable bit rate encoders for generating the plurality of digitally encoded video program packets, the one or more variable bit rate encoders coupled to the IP filter; wherein the one or more variable bit rate encoders are MPEG-2 encoders; the means for multiplexing comprising a channel-bonding CMTS configured to multiplex the IP packets with the digitally encoded video program streams into the composite stream; and the IP filter configured to determine whether each one of the IP packets is one of the nonvideo data packets or one of the digitally encoded video program packets, and if the one of the IP packets is one of the digitally encoded video program packets, to strip IP header information and IP addresses from the one of the IP packets, and if the one of the IP packets is one of the non-video data packets, to forward the one of the IP packets to the means for transmitting without stripping the IP header information or the IP addresses from the one of the IP packets.