An apparatus and a method for transmitting multimedia transport stream hierarchically and recovering the multimedia transmission stream are disclosed. The apparatus includes: an input matching unit for dividing the multimedia data transport stream into packets; a sequence number inserting unit for inserting...http://www.google.com.au/patents/US20050141559?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US20050141559 - Apparatus and method for transmitting hierarchically multimedia data TS to prevent jitter of timing information and for recovering the multimedia data TS