Patent ID: 7913284

Claim:
A computing device comprising: a mobile multimedia (“MM”) receiver operative to capture a current mobile MM signal time slice containing at least one portion of a currently selected mobile MM stream, and further operative to selectively capture at least one anticipated mobile MM time slice containing at least one portion of a corresponding anticipated mobile MM stream, wherein the mobile MM receiver comprises a demodulator operative to demodulate the current mobile MM signal time slice, thereby generating a demodulated current time slice, and demodulate the at least one anticipated mobile MM signal time slice, thereby generating at least one demodulated anticipated time slice, and wherein the computing device further comprises a mobile MM router operative to identify at least one portion of the demodulated current time slice that corresponds to the currently selected mobile MM stream and store the at least one portion of the demodulated current time slice in a memory, and identify at least one portion of the at least one demodulated anticipated time slice that corresponds to the at least one anticipated mobile MM stream, and store the at least one portion of the at least one demodulated anticipated time slice in the memory or in another memory, wherein the at least one portion of the at least one demodulated anticipated time slice represents a final segment of the anticipated mobile MM stream represented in the at least one anticipated mobile MM signal time slice, and wherein the mobile MM router is further operative to obtain, and adjust a size of the final segment based on, at least one of: available memory, an available processing speed of a decoder, and an available processing capacity of the decoder.