Patent ID: 8190762
Filing Date: 2012-05-29
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An electronic apparatus, comprising: a reception means for receiving data of a content transmitted through streaming from a transmission apparatus; a buffer means for buffering the received data; a reproduction means for successively reading out and reproducing the buffered data; an operation reception means for receiving information identifying a pause operation and a resume operation in the reproduction of the buffered data, and the pause and resume operations being received at corresponding times; a transmission means for transmitting, in response to the pause operation and the resume operation, corresponding ones of a pause request and a resume request to the transmission apparatus; and a control means configured to instruct the buffer means to discard at least a portion of the buffered data that overlaps data received after the transmission of the resume request, and to buffer at least a portion of the received data that is identical to the discarded data, the control means being further configured to: