Patent ID: 8503470

Claim:
A system for performing Local Center Authorization Service (LCAS) in a network system, comprising: a data aligner configured to receive input data from a plurality of data channels, each data channel from among the plurality of data channels including a plurality of channel members, and each channel member from among the plurality of channel members including a plurality of data bytes, and to group the data bytes according to channel members to provide aligned data; an LCAS control manager configured to generate de-sequencing control commands in response to the aligned data; a de-sequencer configured to de-sequence the aligned data according to the de-sequencing control commands; and a plurality of free running calendars configured to run at different speeds and to provide the data aligner with a channel processing order, wherein the data aligner is further configured to process data within each of the plurality of data channels in accordance with the channel processing order to provide the aligned data by correlating each of the plurality of free running calendars to a corresponding data channel from among the plurality of data channels depending on an amount of data within each data channel from among the plurality of data channels.