Patent ID: 7212781

Claim:
A mobile terminal operable to receive a broadcast program and receive program data, identical in content to the broadcast program, from a program distribution center via a network, said mobile terminal comprising: a receiver section operable to receive the broadcast program; a state determining section operable to monitor a reception state of the broadcast program received by said receiver section, and operable to determine whether the reception state of the broadcast program is a deteriorated reception state; a program information generating section operable to generate program information, the program information identifying the broadcast program received by said receiver section; a communication section operable to transmit the program information to the program distribution center, and, according to the program information transmitted to the program distribution center, operable to receive from the program distribution center the program data identical in content to the broadcast program; and a reproducing section operable to reproduce the broadcast program received by said receiving section until the reception state of the broadcast program has become the deteriorated reception state, and, upon a determination by said state determining section that the reception state of the broadcast program has become the deteriorated reception state, said reproducing section is operable to switch from reproduction of the broadcast program received by said receiving section to reproduction of the program data received by said communication section.