Patent ID: 8819264

Claim:
A method comprising: accessing, by a user device over a wireless network, a unicast stream carrying data representative of a media content program; detecting, by the user device during the accessing of the unicast stream, an instruction to switch to a multicast stream carrying data representative of the media content program; switching, by the user device in response to the instruction, from the accessing of the unicast stream to accessing the multicast stream by way of the wireless network; and presenting, by the user device, the media content program for experiencing by a user of the user device, wherein the presenting of the media content program is seamless across the switching from the accessing of the unicast stream to the accessing of the multicast stream, wherein the instruction indicates a number of frames to buffer to ensure that the presenting of the media content program is seamless; and buffering, by the user device, in response to the instruction, the number of frames of the media content program indicated in the instruction.