Patent ID: 8139582

Claim:
A method of creating a transport frame, the method comprising: receiving at least one packet to be transported by being loaded in the transport frame; creating start location information about a first packet, that is, a packet whose head and tail are both in the transport frame and which the first packet comes first among the received at least one packet within the transport frame; and creating, by an apparatus for creating the transport frame, the transport frame including the at least one packet and the start location information about the first packet, wherein the creating comprises, when a portion of another packet is located in another transport frame and another portion of the another packet is located in the transport frame prior to the head of the first packet, creating the start location information of the first packet, and wherein the start location information comprises at least one of: an offset value that denotes a distance from a start location of a packet transport channel, which is a section included in the transport frame and used to transport packets, to the first packet, and a frame ID that is allocated to the transport frame and used to search for the start location of the first packet from a predetermined table that stores start locations for the first packet included in the transport frame.