Patent ID: 8331393

Claim:
A method comprising: determining, by a processor, one of size or an indication of size of a de-interleaved symbol from a frame within a frame buffer; estimating, by the processor, a target transport channel buffer in which a de-multiplexed symbol should be written, the target transport channel buffer being one of a plurality of transport channel buffers of a channel buffer, wherein the estimating comprises: inputting a size of at least one of the transport channel buffers; determining a difference between (i) the one of size or an indication of size of a de-interleaved symbol and (ii) the size of the at least one of the transport channel buffers; and comparing the difference with a threshold in order to estimate if the de-multiplexed symbol may be written at the at least one of the transport channel buffers; de-multiplexing, by a de-multiplexer, the de-interleaved symbol from the received frame into a de-multiplexed symbol writing, by the processor, the de-multiplexed symbol to the target transport channel buffer.