Patent ID: 6578200
Filing Date: 2003-06-10
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
A data reception terminal apparatus connected via a control channel and a data channel of a network means to a server apparatus that stores a plurality of objects including at least one object that contains control instructions,the data reception terminal apparatus comprising: object reception means for receiving an object; data storage means for storing data included in the received object; request transmission means for issuing one of an object transmission request and a transmission termination request via the control channel of the network to the server apparatus; input reception means for receiving a user indication; and instruction processing means for decoding one of the user indication received by the input reception means and a control instruction included in the data stored in the data storage means, and for having the request transmission means issue an object transmission request after judging from a decoding result that one of an asynchronous transmission request and a synchronous transmission request should be executed, wherein a synchronous transmission request is a transmission request for having an object transmission request issued to the server apparatus with a next decoding not being performed until an object requested by the object transmission request is received, and an asynchronous transmission request is a transmission request for having an object transmission request issued to the server apparatus with decoding the next control instruction included in the data already stored in the data storage means regardless of whether the requested object by the object transmission request has been received or not.