Patent ID: 7979882

Claim:
An apparatus for providing a Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) service to a terminal communicable with different communication networks, the apparatus comprising: a modem for the DMB service configured to reproduce a broadcasting program received from a DMB network; a modem for a wireless broadband network configured to reproduce the broadcasting program received from the wireless broadband network; a display unit configured to display the broadcasting program; and a memory configured to store therein a part of the broadcasting program that a user has failed to view as the apparatus has failed to receive the program from the DMB network, wherein the missing part of the broadcasting program is downloaded from the wireless broadband network, wherein the memory is configured to store a first time at which the terminal is disconnected from the DMB network, and to receive the broadcasting program over the wireless broadband network starting from the first time, wherein, when a specific time during which the terminal cannot access both the DMB network and the wireless broadband network is longer than or equal to a predetermined time, the memory is configured to store a second time at which the terminal is disconnected from the wireless broadband network and a third time at which the terminal returned to the DMB network, and wherein the terminal is configured to download contents provided from the second time to the third time among the broadcastingprogram provided through the wireless broadband network at any downloadable time, and to store the downloaded contents in the memory.