Patent ID: 6907038

Claim:
A method for packet transmission of multimedia data in a network, the method being for transmitting a group of pictures (GOP), the GOP including a plurality of frames, each of the frames including a plurality of packets, wherein the plurality of frames are of N types of frame, a first to an N-th type of frame, and a packet of a frame of a type of frame is called the packet of the type of frame, the method comprising the steps of: (a) setting i to one, where i is a positive integer; (b) forming an i-th transmission sequence by arranging the packets of the i-th type of frame; (c) forming an (i+1)-th transmission sequence by putting the packets of the (i+1)-th type of frame between packets of the i-th transmission sequence consecutively; (d) incrementing i by one; (e) repeating said steps (c) to (d) until i is equal to N; and (f) transmitting the N-th transmission sequence.