Patent ID: 8559788

Claim:
A method for placing a multimedia object comprising at least one elemental stream of data in memory by a terminal receiving the said elemental stream or streams, comprising: receiving the stream or streams by the terminal in the form of data packets, wherein each data packet comprises a data part and a header, wherein the header comprises a serial numbers number; placing the data parts of the packets received in memory in a data object; creating a hint track comprising elemental records, wherein an elemental record for a received data packet comprises: the serial number of the data packet; a timestamp of the data part of the data packet; and a pointer to the data part of the data packet within the data object, wherein an elemental record for a data packet not received because of transmission errors while receiving the stream comprises: the serial number of the data packet; an indication that the elemental record corresponds to non-received data wherein the elemental records are ordered by serial number.