Patent ID: 8098693

Claim:
A method for a packet aligner to early start a descrambling operation of a descrambler, comprising the steps of: receiving a synchronous byte of a transport packet in a group of m packets by said packet aligner, where m is an integer, wherein said synchronous byte of said transport packet in said group is inverted; generating one of a plurality of alignment indexes indicating another transport packet within said group by said packet aligner to indicate a location of another synchronous byte within said group, wherein said plurality of alignment indexes indicate a plurality of initialization sequences in a one-to-one mapping, and each alignment index corresponds to different synchronous byte within said group; delivering said alignment index generated from said packet aligner to said descrambler; and loading an initialization sequence that corresponds to said alignment index to said descrambler; wherein, once said descrambler receives said initialization sequence initiated by said alignment index generated, said descrambling operation of said descrambler is started.