Patent ID: 7555000

Claim:
A digital broadcast receiver which allows a viewer to switch to content elements selected in response to an operation input by the viewer, said digital broadcast receiver comprising a receiving portion for receiving transmitted data, an operation receiving portion for receiving an operator operation, and a restoring portion for determining which content element to restore next based on the operation received by the operation receiving portion and in accordance with navigation control data, for selecting a content element to be restored next out of content elements transmitted repeatedly, and for restoring the element for output; wherein said restoring portion performs processing of restoring and recording other content elements in parallel with the processing of selecting and restoring a desired content element determined based on the operation input by the operator, and outputs content elements which have been restored in advance and recorded, in the case where content elements determined based on the operation input by the operator have already been recorded, wherein said restoring portion fetches all target fetch control data without specifying which fetch control data to fetch, and records content elements in sequence in the order of obtaining fetch control data while a number of unrecorded fetch control data remains, and when a small number of unrecorded fetch control data remains, said restoring portion specifies said unrecorded fetch control data in order to be fetched and recorded.