Patent ID: 8667554

Claim:
A method for supplying a decoder, residing at terminal equipment, with compressed service data transmitted over a delivery network towards the decoder, the compressed service data comprised of a service data stream that includes both predictive and non-predictive data frames of a common data type, the method comprising: pre-storing a specific frame or information sufficient for constructing the specific frame at the terminal equipment, wherein said specific frame or information is received from the delivery network from a server remote from the terminal equipment upon initiation of the service data delivery and stored as a pre-stored specific frame or information, said specific frame being a predictive frame indicating substantially no changes in the service data in relation to a possible previous service data frame supplied via the service data stream; monitoring, at the terminal equipment, whether a data buffer for the service data is at least near an underflow condition according to one or more predetermined criteria; and upon a determination that the data buffer for service data is at least near the underflow condition, supplying the decoder with the pre-stored specific frame or information in order to prevent the decoder from being disturbed due to a lack of timely provided input data.