Patent ID: 8503483
Filing Date: 2013-08-06
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving by a gateway a plurality of data streams via respective data channels received by the gateway, at least two of the data streams being synchronized to each other as first and second synchronized data streams, the first synchronized data stream including first successive groups of bits and the second synchronized data stream including second successive groups of bits that are synchronized with the first successive groups of bits; identifying by the gateway, from among the data streams, the synchronized data streams as selected data streams for aggregation based on the synchronized data streams each having a same encoding type and destined for a same destination gateway, the synchronized data streams from at least two respective data channels synchronized to each other; and maintaining the synchronization of the first and second successive groups of bits in the synchronized data streams by the gateway based on: successively sampling the first and second successive groups of bits as a prescribed group of bits from each of the synchronized data streams at a corresponding sampling time interval, aggregating the sampled groups of bits, having been sampled from the synchronized data streams at the corresponding sampling time interval, into a single IP media packet payload, and outputting a corresponding IP media packet, containing the IP media packet payload having the sampled groups of bits for the corresponding sampling time interval, to the destination gateway via an IP network.