Patent 7969903 was granted and assigned to Huawei on June, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
This invention discloses method, apparatus and system for hybrid-multiplexing and demultiplexing. The technical solution of the present invention obtains a corresponding preset frame structure parameter set in accordance with specific circumstances of the current link bandwidth, and hybrid-multiplexes byte streams of received services in accordance with the frame structure parameter set to form a multiplexed frame adapted to the current link bandwidth, so as to achieve the objective of making full use of the link bandwidth. Moreover, when the bandwidth of the physical link varies due to switching of modulation modes on the physical link, the hybrid-multiplexing apparatus adaptively changes the frame structure of the multiplexed frame without breaking off the service. In other words, the hybrid-multiplexing method supports ACM switching.