Patent ID: 8427994

Claim:
A system for improving a reliability of transmission of multibroadcast data, the system comprising: a plurality of customer receivers coupled to a telecommunications network and configured to receive a transmission of the multibroadcast data via the telecommunications network, at least some of the plurality of customer receivers being peers of a peer-to-peer network; a supervision server coupled to the telecommunications network and being configured to provide each customer receiver with a list of at least one other customer receiver of the plurality of customer receivers, said provided customer receiver being configured to receive missing data of said multibroadcast data from said at least one other customer receiver of the list via a reliable peer-to-peer connection on the peer-to-peer network; and a multicast source of data adapted to transmit to said plurality of customer receivers, before the data, a root hash of a Merkle hash tree of said data by reliable multibroadcasting via said telecommunications network, said multicast source of data being adapted to transmit to the customer receivers hashes of lower level than said root hash after said root hash and before said data.