Patent ID: 8135075

Claim:
A method of a process for automatic processing of multimedia streams intended to be reproduced on a reproduction terminal, including the following steps implemented by a computer processing system at the demand of a user of the reproduction terminal, said method comprising: reproducing a first stream on the reproduction terminal; interrupting reproduction of the first stream and reproducing a second stream on the reproduction terminal; associating with each stream a preference indicator specifying whether the corresponding stream is a principal stream or a secondary stream; and recording the first stream simultaneously with reproduction of the second stream if the first stream is a principal stream; the process further including an initialization step during which a stream table is created, the stream table including a preference indicator assigned to each stream, wherein a priority level is assigned to each entity in a group formed by the user, an application server, and stream suppliers, in the course of which, the process further includes the steps of: When updating the stream table, a preference indicator and a modification indicator are assigned to each stream; a preference indicator in the stream table is updated by the application server only if the priority level of the entity which demanded the update of said preference indicator is higher than the modification indicator associated with the preference indicator to be modified; then if an update has been implemented, the modification indicator associated with the updated preference indicator is replaced by the priority level associated with entity which demanded the modification.