Patent ID: 7577170

Claim:
A method comprising: dynamically multiplexing, with a dynamic multiplexing device, at least two digital streams transmitted in the form of stream units in one channel, each of these stream units bearing a stream identifier that allows associating it to the corresponding digital stream, the allocation of an identifier to a digital stream being defined by an allocation table and being able to vary over time, in order to allow dynamic multiplexing, said allocation table being identified by a version number, wherein, to indicate that a change of the version number of said allocation table is applicable to a given digital stream, a unique, respective burst is transmitted for that given digital stream with at least one version change stream unit that includes: the stream identifier of said given digital stream; an indicator that allows determining that the stream unit is a version change stream unit; and a new version number of the allocation table that becomes applicable for said given digital stream, wherein at least one of the digital streams is permitted to have a different version number than another of the digital streams that are multiplexed in the channel.