Patent ID: 7039396

Claim:
A receiver comprising: a receiving section for receiving a program, attribute information of said program, and meaning information indicating the meaning and contents of said attribute information, a user attribute storing section for storing user attributes that are attributes of a viewer, an accumulation control section for storing part or whole of said program according to said attribute information that is interpreted based on said meaning information and said user attributes, an accumulation control function receiving section for receiving a function program for executing a function of accumulating part or whole of said program and in that said accumulation control section operates based on said function program received by said accumulation control function receiving section, and wherein the means of said accumulation control function receiving section for receiving said function program is means for receiving a broadcast, the receiver further having a determining section for determining whether said accumulation control function receiving section has failed to receive said function program from said broadcast or not and an accumulation control function acquiring section for acquiring said function program through a network when said determining section determines that the reception has failed.