Patent ID: 9578292
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: H03M,H04L,H04N

Claim:
1. A method for transmitting a packet in a communication system, the method comprising: determining at least one motion picture experts group (MPEG) media transport (MMT) asset to be protected by a forward error correction (FEC); determining a number of FEC source flows comprising MMT packets carrying the MMT asset; identifying an FEC configuration information based on an FEC coding structure and an FEC code to be applied to the FEC source flows; generating repair symbols composing at least one FEC repair flow by performing an FEC coding for the FEC source flows by using the FEC code; generating FEC repair packets corresponding to each of the repair symbols, and transmitting the FEC repair packets to a receiving entity; and transmitting an FEC message including the FEC configuration information to the receiving entity.