System and method of operating the system that responds to channel change requests without causing macro-blocking

A router stores a value that indicates the maximum number of channels that can be output to a group, and the number of channels that are output to the group. When a member of the group indicates a channel change selection from a first channel to a second channel, the router drops the first channel b...

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Hauptverfasser: Cheng, Zhidan, Wong, Allen
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:A router stores a value that indicates the maximum number of channels that can be output to a group, and the number of channels that are output to the group. When a member of the group indicates a channel change selection from a first channel to a second channel, the router drops the first channel before outputting the second channel when the maximum number of channels and the number of channels are equal.