Patent ID: 8694869

Claim:
A system for transmitting information blocks, comprising: a destination station comprising a decoder, the decoder configured to receive particular content from a first source and transition to receive a remainder of the particular content from a second source; the first source of the particular content transmitting first outer blocks for receipt by the destination station, the first outer blocks including information blocks and redundancy blocks generated above the radio link control layer that can be used to reconstruct the information blocks; the second source of the particular content transmitting second outer blocks comprising information blocks for receipt by the destination station when the destination station undergoes the transition between the first source and the second source, wherein the decoder is further configured to reconstruct any information blocks of the second outer blocks lost during the transition and avoid decoding duplicate information blocks using the redundancy blocks; and wherein the transmission rate of the information blocks from the second source of the particular content is greater than the transmission rate of the information blocks from the first source of the particular content, and wherein the second source of the particular content starts transmission at a first information block of the first outer block being transmitted when the transition occurs to thereby reduce loss of information blocks during the transition.