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Information expressed in the form of assertions; e.g., P is, Q is, R is, or, more succinctly, {P, Q, R}.
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An environment that supports the processing of declarative applications; an XDML user agent (browser) is an example of a declarative application environment.
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An application which primarily makes use of declarative information to express its behavior; an XDML document instance is an example of a declarative application.
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A datagram is the fundamental protocol data unit in a packet-oriented data delivery protocol. Typically, a datagram is divided into header and data areas, where the header contains full addressing information (source and destination addresses) with each data unit. Datagrams are most often associated with connectionless network and transport layer services.
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The provider of data that is being inserted into the MPEG-2 transport stream.
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A collection of applications and associated data elementary streams as signaled in a data service table of the service description framework. A data service is characterized by a profile and a level.
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A part of the data framing structure, comprising 832 total symbols, that begins with a Data Segment Sync word, represented by four transmitted 2-level symbols, and carries 828 symbols of payload thereafter.
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Any device capable of receiving and consuming data carried on an MPEG-2 transport stream.
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The fundamental data entity resulting from the in-order re-assembly of the payload of the DSM-CC downloadDataBlock messages pertaining to the same downloadId, moduleId, and moduleVersion field values.
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An ordered sequence of bytes of a bounded size.
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