Patent ID: 8886765
Filing Date: 2014-11-11
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An apparatus comprising: a receiver configured to receive the stream of input content, from a server, content including a stream of content and a chunk of content as downloaded data, where the chunk of content is located at a later time in the content than a currently received stream of the content, where the later time in the content is discontinuous from a current last time of the currently received stream of content; an interactive playback controller portion; a playback indicator configured to indicate a location of the chunk within discontinuous with the currently received stream of the content along a playback time line indicator including the stream of input content; a storage portion configured to store the downloaded data; and an output portion configured to output an output signal, based on the downloaded data, to the content output device, wherein said interactive playback controller portion is further configured to enable the user to instruct said output portion to output the chunk of content data as the output signal.