Patent ID: 7697559

Claim:
A server for delivering broadcast media including a plurality of transmission packets to a communication terminal, wherein the server is configured to: transmit reproduction information indicating a reproduction method for the broadcast media designated by broadcast notification information prior to the reproduction of the broadcast media by the communication terminal; transmit a transmission packet of the broadcast media to the communication terminal in a non-compression format configured to be reproduced without referring to another transmission packet of the broadcast media as a first transmission packet transmitted after transmitting the reproduction information, wherein the non-compression format configured to be reproduced without referring to another transmission packet of the broadcast media is a header compression refresh packet for initializing a header compression state; and transmit a transmission packet of the broadcast media to the communication terminal in a compression format configured to be reproduced only by referring to another transmission packet of the broadcast media when the transmission packet is not the first transmission packet transmitted after transmitting the reproduction information, wherein each of the transmission packets of the broadcast media transmitted from the server to the communication terminal is one of a Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) packet, a User Data Protocol (UDP) packet and an Internet Protocol (IP) packet.