Patent ID: 7188354

Claim:
A method of splicing a stream of a commercial time slot into a network time slot of an incoming network stream, said commercial time slot and network time slot each having an in-point and an out-point and a duration, the method comprising: multiplexing the commercial stream into the network stream such that the commercial slot in-point is aligned with the network slot out-point; during the commercial stream, adjusting the vbv_delays of said stream such that the duration of the commercial stream has a maximum duration that is longer than the duration of the network time slot, any difference in durations being equal to a network feed extra; at the network stream in-point, multiplexing any remaining portion of the commercial stream at a higher stream rate, and storing any network feed extra; and at the commercial stream out-point, multiplexing any stored network feed extra into the network stream while adjusting the vbv_delays of the stored network feed extra until the vbv_delays in the network feed extra match that in the incoming network feed.