Patent ID: 7065781
Filing Date: 2006-06-20
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A broadcast data receiver apparatus for receiving and processing data from a plurality of received data transport streams, said data broadcast from a location remote to a receiver in a set-top box, and said receiver comprising: storage means for storing a local database in said receiver; each of said plurality of data transport streams including packets of data and packet identifiers for identifying said packets of data; processing means processing a single stream of data, means for receiving said plurality of data transport streams and for simultaneously processing, merging, and demultiplexing said plurality of data transport streams, selecting packets of data from said plurality of data transport streams and only remapping the packet identifiers corresponding to said selected packets of data of each stream using the local database without remapping of said packets of data, the selected packets of data and the remapped packet identifiers from said plurality of data transport streams then being multiplexed into a single transport stream of data for subsequent processing in the receiver by the processing means.