Patent ID: 8705633

Claim:
A method for transporting an 8B/10B coded video stream from a transmitter across a 64B/66B coded link to a receiver comprising the steps: receiving an 8B/10B input video stream at said transmitter, decoding said 8B/10B input video stream by said transmitter such that each 10B symbol is represented as a byte with an associated flag indicating whether each said symbol was a control byte or a decoded data byte, translating each of said control bytes by said transmitter into a unique mapped control byte having a Hamming distance of 3 or more and thereby facilitating single bit error correction on each of said mapped control bytes, packing said decoded data bytes and said mapped control bytes into a series of 64B/66B data blocks, wherein each 64B/66B data block is packed according to a selected mix of control and data bytes, as selected by the transmitter from among several different predefined mixes; and sending a 64B/66B control block to inform said receiver when the selected mix of control and data bytes changes in the 64B/66B data blocks outgoing from the transmitter.