Patent ID: 8732780

Claim:
A method of receiving a media program comprising a first portion and a second portion temporally following the first portion, comprising the steps of: accepting a command to receive a broadcast transmission of the media program after the first portion of the broadcast transmission of the media program has already been broadcast, the broadcast transmission having data packets packetized according to a broadcast protocol; receiving a point-to-point transmission of the first portion of the media program while receiving and storing the broadcast transmission of the second portion of the media program, the point-to-point transmission having the data packets packetized according to the broadcast communication protocol and transmitted according to a point-to-point point protocol different than the broadcast protocol; appending the beginning of the received second portion of the media program to the end of the received first portion of the media program; wherein: the media program comprises a plurality of data packets; the broadcast transmission further comprises a program clock reference absent from the point-to-point transmission; and the method further comprises playing back the beginning of the received first portion, comprising the step of assembling the data packets received via the point-to-point transmission according to a clock, wherein the clock is set to a default frequency and phased according to a program time stamp of at least one of the data packets received via the point-to-point transmission.