Patent ID: 8463930

Claim:
A method of operation of a receiving device comprising: receiving two content streams transmitted for a media station; providing playback of a first content stream of the two content streams; during playback of the first content stream, in response to receiving each most recent media item in a second content stream of the two content streams, discarding all media items previously received in the second content stream and buffering the each most recent media item received in the second content stream; receiving a skip request during playback of the first content stream; in response to the skip request, switching playback from the first content stream to the second content stream to provide playback of the second content stream beginning at a start of the most recent media item received in the second content stream that is buffered by the receiving device; and during playback of the second content stream, in response to receiving each most recent media item in the first content stream, discarding all media items previously received in the first content stream and buffering each most recent media item received in the first content stream.