Patent ID: 6986159

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 the 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, in a receiving mode; for restoring and recording a set of navigation control data and a set of content elements, in a recording mode; and for selecting a content element from a set of content elements for output, based on the operation received by the operation receiving portion and in accordance with the recorded navigation control data, in a reproducing mode, wherein said restoring portion determines whether or not all content elements included in the sets of content elements have been recorded, in accordance with a received content element list in the recording mode.