Patent ID: 6920086

Claim:
A method for performing a reproduction of information, comprising the steps of: upon an arrival of information from a first information source, reproducing the information from the first information source provided no information from a further information source is present; upon an arrival of information from the further information source, reproducing the information from the further information source on a priority basis before any information from the first information source, wherein: if the reproducing of the information from the first information source is being performed upon the arrival of the information from the further information source, the reproducing of the information from the first information source is interrupted; upon the arrival of the information from the first information source, recording the information from the first information source; upon the arrival of the information from the further information source during the reproducing of recorded information from the first information source, interrupting the reproduction of the recorded information from the first information source, and reproducing the information from the further information source on the priority basis; and after completion of the priority-basis reproduction of the information from the further information source, beginning the reproducing of the recorded information from the first information source.