Patent ID: 8817780

Claim:
A method of grooming transport stream (TS) packets in a receiver of a digital video broadcasting (DVB) system, the method comprising: parsing a header field of a received TS packet; comparing a packet identifier (PID) field of the received TS packet with a selected packet identifier (PID) value; comparing a continuity counter (CC) field of the received TS packet with an expected CC value; modifying the CC field of the received TS packet if the PID field of the received TS packet matches the selected PID value and the CC field of the received TS packet does not match the expected CC value; changing the PID field of the received TS packet to the selected PID value if the PID field of the received TS packet does not match the selected PID value and the CC field of the received TS packet matches the expected CC value ; and forwarding the received TS packet to a processing module if the PID field of the received TS packet matches the selected PID value and the CC field of the received TS packet matches the expected CC value.