Patent ID: 8432941

Claim:
A method of transmitting a burst stream transmission, comprising: generating a set of cyclical time slots having a predetermined period; encoding a set of services in the set of cyclical time slots; and transmitting the set of services to a device, the device being configured to— receive at least a portion of the encoded set of services in the set of cyclical time slots, select at least a first service of the set of services for presentation on the device, determine a subset of the set of services encoded in a most distant subset of the set of cyclical time slots from a currently received time slot, store exclusively the determined subset of the set of services encoded in the most distant subset of the set of cyclical time slots from the currently received time slot to a cache on the device, receive a user request to change the service for presentation on the device from the first service to a second service, and retrieve the second service from the cache for presentation on the device when the second service is stored in the cache.