Patent ID: 8837533

Claim:
A transmission system for repeatedly transmitting and receiving data at a constant frequency, the data comprising digital audio data of a plurality of channels and auxiliary data required to play back the digital audio data, said transmission system comprising: a transmission apparatus; and a receiving apparatus in communication with the transmission apparatus, wherein the transmission apparatus is configured to utilize a data structure that comprises a region with a plurality of n frames, each of the n frames including a plurality of previously allocated time slots, wherein each of the n frames has at least one first time slot, at least one second time slot, and at least one third time slot, the first time slots of the n frames have the same bit position across the n frames, the second time slots of the n frames have the same bit position across the n frames, and the third time slots of the n frames have the same bit position across the n frames, wherein the transmission apparatus is configured to transmit a piece of the digital audio data using the first time slots of the n frames, wherein the transmission apparatus is configured to transmit a piece of the auxiliary data required to play back the piece of the digital audio data, using the second time slots of the n frames, wherein the transmission apparatus is configured to transmit header information for the region using the third time slots of the n frames, and wherein the auxiliary data includes channel assignment information that indicates which of the channels of the digital audio data is assigned to which of the time slots.