Abstract: A sending device for sending a signature to at least one receiving device is provided. The sending device includes a sending unit being configured to send data to the at least one receiving device, the data including a plurality of frames, a receiving unit being configured to receive a request from the at least one receiving device to send a signature to the receiving device, the request including an indication indicating the frames of the plurality of frames being received by the at least one receiving device, and a computing unit being configured to compute a signature using the indicated frames, wherein the sending unit is configured to send the computed signature to the at least one receiving device. Further, a corresponding receiving device for verifying a signature from a sending device is provided.

Abstract: A method is provided for digitally signing a file that contains hierarchically structured data objects, the method including the steps of: generating at least one signature data object at the file level, calculating a digital signature for data from the file, and writing the calculated digital signature into the generated signature data object.

Abstract: An image block is encoded by an inter-layer prediction into a first encoded image block and also encoded into a second encoded image block based on an encoding mode that excludes inter-layer prediction. The encoded first and second image blocks are decoded into reconstructed first and second image blocks, respectively. The first encoded image block is inserted into the encoded video stream. When encoding image blocks by an encoding mode that references the reconstructed first image block, the reference to the reconstructed second image block is changed. The image block encoded in this way is inserted into the encoded video data stream to achieve both a high compression rate with high image quality and low complexity in transcoding that can be used with different end devices by a scalable encoded video data stream, such as a video-on-demand service.

Abstract: A method is provided for encoding and decoding a sequence of digital data, according to which a portion of the sequence of digital data corresponds to a data block that includes several data packets, at least two data packets per data block containing an identifier. The position of the data packet within the corresponding data block can be determined based on the identifier, and the data is encoded or decoded by taking into account the identifier.

Abstract: A method is provided for encoding and decoding a sequence of digital data, according to which a portion of the sequence of digital data corresponds to a data block that includes several data packets, at least two data packets per data block containing an identifier. The position of the data packet within the corresponding data block can be determined based on the identifier, and the data is encoded or decoded by taking into account the identifier.

Abstract: A method is provided for encoding and decoding a sequence of digital data, according to which a portion of the sequence of digital data corresponds to a data block that includes several data packets, at least two data packets per data block containing an identifier. The position of the data packet within the corresponding data block can be determined based on the identifier, and the data is encoded or decoded by taking into account the identifier.

Abstract: A method is provided for encoding and decoding a sequence of digital data, according to which a portion of the sequence of digital data corresponds to a data block that includes several data packets, at least two data packets per data block containing an identifier. The position of the data packet within the corresponding data block can be determined based on the identifier, and the data is encoded or decoded by taking into account the identifier.

Abstract: Additional descriptors are used which, unlike known descriptors, only describe the size of the subset and the difference in correction capability. The additional descriptors also identify a defined separation between a signaling block and at least one data block, in addition to the positions of the filler bits within the transmission block or data block.

Abstract: Individual data packets are transmitted together with information about the end of a respective data packet, without padding, and then virtual padding is effected for generating redundant packets. At the receiver, the data packets are obtained using the information about the respective end of packet if no packet was lost, and are only expanded by padding if a packet has been lost and can be reconstructed by one or more redundant packets.

Abstract: A method is provided for encoding and decoding a sequence of digital data, according to which a portion of the sequence of digital data corresponds to a data block that includes several data packets, at least two data packets per data block containing an identifier. The position of the data packet within the corresponding data block can be determined based on the identifier, and the data is encoded or decoded by taking into account the identifier.

Abstract: Additional descriptors are used which, unlike known descriptors, only describe the size of the subset and the difference in correction capability. The additional descriptors also identify a defined separation between a signaling block and at least one data block, in addition to the positions of the filler bits within the transmission block or data block.

Abstract: Individual data packets are transmitted together with information about the end of a respective data packet, without padding, and then virtual padding is effected for generating redundant packets. At the receiver, the data packets are obtained using the information about the respective end of packet if no packet was lost, and are only expanded by padding if a packet has been lost and can be reconstructed by one or more redundant packets.