Patent ID: 8356324

Claim:
A method comprising: streaming video packets from a video program normal mode from a digital media server to a digital media rendering system on a first socket to the rendering system; receiving, at the digital media server, a control signal from the rendering system over a second socket with the rendering system while streaming the normal mode video packets over the first socket, the second socket being separate from the first socket; in response to receipt of the control signal, switching from a normal mode of streaming the video program to a trick mode of streaming the video program from the digital media server to the rendering system over the first socket without closing the first socket; and in response to receipt of the control signal, sending a resynchronization signal from the media server to the rendering system over the first socket, wherein the resynchronization signal denotes a beginning of a trick mode stream of video data, indicates that packets of video data received after the resynchronization signal are trick mode video packets and should be processed by the rendering system, and is adapted to cause the rendering system to resynchronize the processing of video packets, including processing the trick mode video packets, after the trick mode of streaming has begun in the new stream.