Patent ID: 7293101

Claim:
A method for determining access times of a plurality of segments of a plurality of broadcast objects in a broadcast channel using a unidirectional communication scheme in order to transmit the plurality of broadcast objects from a server side to a receiver side, each of the plurality of said segments of said plurality of broadcast objects are permitted to (i) have a different size, (ii) be segmented into smaller units in order to allow overlapped transmission or parallel transmission, (iii) be transmitted in a different repetitive pattern, and (iv) be transmitted in a broadcast cycle in different orders, said method characterized in that each segment of a broadcast object of a current broadcast cycle includes a header defining a repetition distance which is the distance between a completed transmission of the current segment of the broadcast object and the next transmission of a next segment of the broadcast object, and therefore a next reception point in time of said next segment of said broadcast object is calculated from a current time value and said repetition distance; wherein said repetition distance is calculated using an iterative loop over all of said plurality of segments of the broadcast cycle in transmission order.