Patent ID: 8565321

Claim:
A method for transmitting at least two consecutive data blocks to at least two modems in an adaptive modulation based communications system environment, each of the data blocks being configured for a maximum number of moving picture expert group (MPEG) frames, the method comprising: determining in the communications system environment whether a number of MPEG frames in a first of the at least two data blocks is less than a maximum number of MPEG frames, wherein when the number of MPEG frames is less than the maximum number of MPEG frames, a difference therebetween represents a corresponding number of empty frames in the first data block; and filling one or more of the empty frames with data from a second of the at least two data blocks, the data filling the one or more empty frames being transmitted to one of the modems and the data in the other frames of the first data block being transmitted to a different one of the modems.