Patent ID: 7926084

Claim:
A method of controlling a receiver station, said receiver station including a receiver, a memory operatively connected to said receiver, and at least one control processor operatively connected to said memory, said method comprising the steps of: receiving, at said receiver, an information transmission including processor instructions and a television program; performing an error correction routine by a process of checking and correcting said information transmission; programming said receiver station to perform a failure handling routine in accordance with said processor instructions of said information transmission; passing information contained in said television program to said memory; discerning a failure evidencing of at least one of an incomplete and an incorrect television program unit by processing said information passed to said memory corrected in said error correction routine that causes an incompletion operation functionality of the control processor; executing said failure handling routine in consequence on said step of discerning a failure, said failure handling routine including: generating and storing operation failure evidencing information of said receiver station, clearing said memory, and restoring operation functionality of said at least one control processor based on and in accordance to said stored information, and instructing said at least one control processor to commence waiting to receive subsequent processor instructions received in said information transmission; wherein said method controls said receiver station.