Patent ID: 7043139

Claim:
A method for addressing a bitstream being recorded on a storage medium comprising the steps of: using an address table corresponding to pieces of said bitstream, wherein each said piece of bitstream includes a constant amount of bits and said pieces contain data packets which include an application time stamp, assigning a delta time duration values to an entry within said address table, said entries having index values running from 1 to at least n-1, wherein said delta time duration value represents a difference in arrival times between a first data packet of a corresponding piece of said bitstream and a first data packet of a next piece of said bitstream, and said address table contains an initial time value that is not assigned to any of said pieces, accumulating said initial time value and all of said delta time duration values up to an entry for a nearest piece of said bitstream corresponding to a desired time value in order to set an address value corresponding to said desired time value on said storage medium, wherein said index for said delta time duration value entry related to said nearest piece of said bitstream is multiplied by said constant bit amount in order to compute said address value, selecting said initial time value such that bits of said delta time duration values correspond in weight to a corresponding number of a most significant bits of said application time stamps.