Patent ID: 7450819
Filing Date: 2008-11-11
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. Method for addressing pieces of a bitstream to be recorded or being recorded on a storage medium, wherein an address table is used that assigns time information to said pieces and each of said pieces including a constant number of bits, wherein: said pieces contain data packets; to each address table entry for said pieces a delta time duration value is assigned in said address table and to each delta time duration value a running index is assigned, wherein a delta time duration value represents the difference between the arrival time of the first data packet of a piece and the arrival time of the data packet following immediately the last data packet of that piece; in order to get the value for a target piece address on said storage medium, all delta time duration values up to the nearest time duration value for the piece having said target address become accumulated and the corresponding running index for the delta time duration entry related to said nearest time duration value is multiplied by said constant bit number in order to compute said target piece address value.