Patent ID: 8495421

Claim:
Method for packet-switching transmission of media data between a sending device and a receiving device, in which an output media data record is transmitted in the form of data packets from the sending device via a data communication connection to a receiving device according to a transmission protocol, and a destination media data record is generated from the transmitted data packets, wherein error information data is inserted in the destination media data record if transmission errors are detected upon the transmission of the data packets according to the transmission protocol, wherein, with a transmission error in the form of a data packet loss of at least one data packet, a data area in the destination media data record is left free which is allocated to the at least one data packet lost due to the data packet loss, and wherein, in the data area left free, offset error information data comprised by the allocated error information data is inserted, wherein the offset error information data indicates a spacing between the at least one data packet lost by the data packet loss and at least one additional data packet lost by the data packet loss in the destination media data record.