Patent ID: 8190762

Claim:
An electronic apparatus, comprising: a reception means for receiving data of a content transmitted through streaming from a transmission apparatus; a buffer means for buffering the received data; a reproduction means for successively reading out and reproducing the buffered data; an operation reception means for receiving information identifying a pause operation and a resume operation in the reproduction of the buffered data, and the pause and resume operations being received at corresponding times; a transmission means for transmitting, in response to the pause operation and the resume operation, corresponding ones of a pause request and a resume request to the transmission apparatus; and a control means configured to instruct the buffer means to discard at least a portion of the buffered data that overlaps data received after the transmission of the resume request, and to buffer at least a portion of the received data that is identical to the discarded data, the control means being further configured to: identify first and second content positions within the streamed content, the first content position corresponding to the pause operation time, and the second content position corresponding to an initial portion of the data received subsequent to the resume operation time; determine whether the second position precedes the first position within the streamed content; and discard the portion of the buffered data disposed between the first and second positions, when the second position precedes to the first position.